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Devin Watkins

Legal Associate

Cato Institute

Devin Watkins is a legal associate in the Cato Institute’s Center for Constitutional Studies. During law school, Devin interned at Cato, the Institute for Justice, a public-interest law firm in Arlington, Virginia, and the law offices of William J. Olson, P.C.
Devin holds a J.D. from Scalia Law School, where he was the development editor on the Mason Law Review, President of the Mason Federalist Society and the Mason Law Students for Liberty, and a student fellow with the Institute for Humane Studies. Prior to his legal career Devin was a Senior Software Developer at Intel and WebMD. He graduated with a B.S. in Computer Science from Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey.

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You Have a Constitutional Right to Record Public Officials in Public

October 12, 2016
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Civil Liberties

Millions have watched cellphone videos of police violating Americans’ rights. United States Customs and Border Protection (“CBP”) is trying to make sure the same doesn’t happen to them by banning video and photography—not in secure spaces or regarding special operations, but out in the open in the ordinary court of business. In a case out of California, two citizens were taking pictures of border crossings from public sidewalks of what they believed were environmental problems and unlawful searches. CBP agents saw them, arrested them, seized their cameras, and deleted their pictures.