A federal judge allows video recording of Prop 8 proceedings
It won’t run on live television, but a federal judge in San Francisco will allow YouTube to carry delayed video recordings of next week’s court challenge to California’s same-sex marriage ban. More on the story from KPCC’s Cheryl Devall.
Federal courtrooms almost never allow TV cameras inside during proceedings. Only recently, federal courts in the western states got the go-ahead to experiment with cameras in the courtroom.
Supporters of the ban on same-sex marriage opposed the idea of televising the trial. But opponents’ interest in the legal fallout from Proposition 8 — the voter-approved amendment that defines marriage as between a man and a woman — compelled the judge in this civil trial to see what he could do.
Here’s his compromise: he won’t allow live TV coverage. But a court employee will record video of the proceedings and upload them on YouTube for same-day viewing.
The judge offered his opinion that people on both sides of the same-sex marriage issue may learn from watching the trial. It begins on Monday in San Francisco.
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