I am not providing legal advice, and the summaries are merely my interpretations. I encourage everyone to read the laws for themselves. Below are links to the actual laws as provided by the State and Local governments.
(Summary) We can film in publicly accessible areas on federal property.
https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/389/347/
"a man's home is, for most purposes, a place where he expects privacy, but objects, activities, or statements that he exposes to the "plain view" of outsiders are not "protected," because no intention to keep them to himself has been exhibited. On the other hand, conversations in the open would not be protected against being overheard, for the expectation of privacy under the circumstances would be unreasonable"
https://casetext.com/case/am-civil-liberties-union-of-ill-v-alvarez/case-summaries
No right to privacy and the first amendment protects the ability to record in public.
https://casetext.com/case/united-states-v-paxton-14
Finding no privacy interest supporting use of state eavesdropping statute to criminalize third-party audiovisual recording of police officers performing their duties—including engaging citizens in non-confidential conversations—in public places
https://casetext.com/case/naveed-v-city-of-san-jose
Finding a First Amendment interest in "nonconsensual audio recording of public officials performing their official duties in public"
https://casetext.com/case/ja-v-miranda
Finding "[a]udio recording is entitled to First Amendment protection," and such protection includes "prohibit[ing] government from limiting the stock of information from which members of the public may draw."
https://codes.ohio.gov/ohio-revised-code
Otherwise known as the Sunshine Laws:
B(9)(a) - Upon written request made and signed by a journalist, public service worker shall disclose to the journalist the address of the actual personal residence of the designated public service worker.
E(2) - The public office shall create a poster that describes its public records policy and shall post the poster in a conspicuous place in the public office and in all locations where the public office has branch offices.
C- As used in division (B)(9) of this section, "journalist" means a person engaged in gathering, processing, transmitting, compiling, editing, or disseminating information for the general public.
No person shall knowingly cause another to believe that the offender will cause physical harm to the person or property of the other person
Quietly filming and standing still is not disorderly.
https://codelibrary.amlegal.com/codes/ashtabula/latest/ashtabula_oh/0-0-0-8563#JD_509
Engaging in fighting, in threatening harm to persons or property, or in violent or turbulent behavior;
Noises, insults or physically preventing movement. Risk of physical harm.
https://codelibrary.amlegal.com/codes/warren/latest/warren_oh/0-0-0-7165
Engaging in fighting, in threatening harm to persons or property, or in violent or turbulent behavior;
Noises, insults or physically preventing movement. Risk of physical harm.
https://codelibrary.amlegal.com/codes/warren/latest/warren_oh/0-0-0-8377
(a) No public servant, under color of the public servant’s office, employment, or authority, shall knowingly deprive, or conspire or attempt to deprive any person of a constitutional or statutory right.
(b) Whoever violates this section is guilty of interfering with civil rights, a misdemeanor of the first degree. (ORC 2921.45)
https://codelibrary.amlegal.com/codes/warren/latest/warren_oh/0-0-0-8377
(a) No person shall knowingly make a false statement, or knowingly swear or affirm the truth of a false statement previously made, when any of the following applies:
(2) The statement is made with purpose to incriminate another.
(3) The statement is made with purpose to mislead a public official in performing the public official's official function.
https://codelibrary.amlegal.com/codes/warren/latest/warren_oh/0-0-0-27199
(a) No person who is in a public place shall refuse to disclose the person’s name, address, or date of birth, when requested by a law enforcement officer who reasonably suspects either of the following:
(1) The person is committing, has committed, or is about to commit a criminal offense.
(2) (Summary) The person is a witness to someone committing, someone committed, or is about to commit a criminal offense.
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