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Originally Posted by FRSBRZGT86FAN
Aren't there police officers and lawyers on this forum that can prove this as legal or illegal?
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I'm not sure what would be illegal. I'm not a cop or lawyer, but I had to know the trespassing laws pretty well when I shot television news because people would often threaten to call the cops on us just for doing our jobs. The way trespass laws generally work is that in order to be trespassing on publicly accessible property, you have to be
established as a trespasser. In other words, you have to be instructed to leave by someone in control of the property, or there has to be some kind of signage indicating permitted or prohibited uses of the property.
For example, you're in the school parking lot, the principal comes out and tells you to leave, but you don't. That's trespassing.
Or there are signs up that say, "No Loitering," and you loiter. You're trespassing, but to really make that stick, someone needs to tell you to leave.
Malls will often post rules at the entrances, with a clear statement that you are trespassing if you violate the rules. That establishes the trespasser before he even becomes one.
If there's a "No Trespassing" sign, passing it establishes you as a trespasser.
If there's a fence, that's considered an implicit message that the person who put that fence there doesn't want you inside it. So you can't go into someone's fenced back yard and then say, "But nobody told me to leave." When I was in news, we had the right to walk up to someone's front door and knock. If the homeowner told us to get off his property, we had to move out to the public right of way on the street. But we couldn't walk around to the back and knock on the back door, because that wouldn't have been considered the public side of the building.
So if this is just a publicly accessible school parking lot that parents often use for parking when visiting the school, these people may not be trespassing even if they're just lurking in their cars. It really depends on the signage around the school and whether they've been told to leave. This is a lot different from going inside the school and walking around in an area that isn't supposed to be accessible to the public.
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Originally Posted by GLADIATOR
Nobody knows about this but the two school faculty members.....and all you guys, LOL.
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So why are they not reviewing the video or allowing you to review it? What do they have to hide?