Is posting security camera images legal?
Please answer only if you are knowledgeable in this area and have credible information to contribute.
My neighborhood association has security cameras around the gated pool area, which members must use access cards to enter. We have a problem with kids jumping the gate to gain access, many times vandalizing the facilities. They’re most likely neighborhood kids but for whatever reason, don’t have an access card. Either way, they shouldn’t be jumping the gate.
I have images of them caught in the act. But we’re not really sure who they are. Would posting their photos on a bulletin board in the facilities be legal? What about posting on the password-protected neighborhood association website? Or sending out in our regular newsletter?
We’re just thinking that getting the info out and getting the neighborhood involved in holding these people responsible is the right thing to do. But does the law work against us here?
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password protected neighborhood association is ok because it is privately owned and doens’t infringe the first amendment of freedom of the press/ speech and the right to publish it with out breakign the rights of others, all that good stuff.
If you post it simply to the public it is illegal because it is well public.
Just turn it in to the cops, they can put it on the news legally and arrest them bandits!