A police union is asking a judge to require the Las Vegas Review-Journal to take down a video posted with a story about Henderson jail overtime and corrections officer failures, raising concerns about constitutional press freedom. …
Here’s the video.
The newspaper reported that taxpayers have paid millions of dollars to run the city’s understaffed detention center and that corrections officers sometimes made mistakes and violated policy, records show. The exclusive jail surveillance footage and photos were posted with the story.
The Nevada Association of Public Safety Officers union, on behalf of Henderson officers, filed the complaint Wednesday, claiming that the Review-Journal broke a state law that says images of officers in possession of a law enforcement agency are confidential.
The lawsuit comes days after the union sent the Review-Journal and city officials a letter demanding the newspaper remove the pictures and videos of officers attached to the story. The letter, written by executive director Andrew Regenbaum, also demanded the city open a criminal investigation into the source of the video. …
It’s just saying the law enforcement officer can’t release or give away the photo (that they received from you), as it is confidential. It is a law against leaking images, not a law against receiving them. That’s why they want to know the source (because the source, and only the source, broke the law).
As an example, let’s say you have a picture taken of you nude that is being used in a criminal investigation. When you give that photo to a police officer, the police officer (and the agency) is required to keep that photo confidential. You, on the other hand, could post it to your OnlyFans account if you want, but even then, the copy you gave the police would be considered confidential by them.