AUSTIN, Texas — The city of Austin may have illegally seized a citizen journalist’s cameras and video footage of police activity in and around homeless encampments, ruled a federal court that declined to grant summary judgment to the city on the citizen reporter’s Privacy Protection Act claim. His civil rights claim for First Amendment violations related to 13 times he was arrested fail because he could not show a city custom, policy or practice of First Amendment violations as required to sustain a Section 1983 claim against the city.
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