[hermitdev]

Some enterprising individual should purchase the data for the sole purpose of publishing activity of politicians, judges, and so on. I bet you the laws would change in a hurry.

[shiftpgdn]

Lots of jurisdictions already have carve outs where you can’t publish information (such as location data) for high level public officials.

[gruez]

Source? That sounds like it would run afoul of the 1st amendment. Most likely it's actually implemented as something vague like "intimating a public official", and prosecutors use the threat of a charge to bully people into stopping.

[shiftpgdn]

https://www.txcourts.gov/programs-services/court-security/co...

[landemva]

Good link. That restricts certain specific records. I wonder if it has been challenged.

"... restrict public access of their residence address in tax appraisal records..."

If they took a mortgage on property, the document with their name is usually recorded by county clerk and recorder.

[calvinmorrison]

Or more simply, cop car detectors that publicly share where all police are in a vicinity based on camera footage. Just need some enterprising anarchists to let us leverage their ring footage. Can even do it real time!