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Fast Company: You have a right to record ICE agents. Here’s how to protect your phone (and yourself)

January 27, 2026

“It’s really important to start with the fact that individuals have a First Amendment right to record police officers and law enforcement,” says Maria Villegas Bravo, counsel at the nonprofit Electronic Privacy Information Center. “If you’re lawfully allowed to be somewhere, you are legally allowed to record law enforcement in the course of their duty.”

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