Project Veritas Sues Oregon for the Right to Go Undercover With Antifa in Portlandhttps://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/tyler-o-neil/2020/08/24/project-veritas-sues-oregon-for-the-right-to-go-undercover-with-antifa-in-portland-n834192On Monday, Project Veritas sued the State of Oregon, claiming that the state’s ban on secret audio recording violates the First Amendment. Project Veritas Founder James O’Keefe announced the lawsuit in front of the Mark O. Hatfield U.S. Courthouse, the federal courthouse that violent antifa rioters repeatedly attacked, night after night, during the nearly 90 days of George Floyd riots in Portland.
O’Keefe said Oregon’s recording laws “prohibit us from going undercover inside these protests to figure out what was going on.â€
“We have already overturned Massachusetts recording law, now we’re going to do the same in Oregon,†O’Keefe added.
Ben Barr, one of the attorneys filing the suit on behalf of Project Veritas, explained, “Oregon law currently makes it a criminal act to record a protest, or an interview, or nearly any other interaction without clear and conspicuous notice to anyone whose voice might be recorded.â€
If Barr represents OR law accurately, that law is ridiculous. People doing things in public - like protests and riots - have no legal or reasonable expectation of privacy, because they acted and spoke in public.
