Your phone is watching you in Philly courts, or nah?
Listen, I'm not even gonna hold you. You walk into any courthouse in this city, from the Criminal Justice Center to that Family Court jawn up on Arch Street, and you just *know* there's a certain way you gotta move. Security lines long as a SEPTA bus route, pat-downs that make you wanna just go home. But now, they're saying your fancy new glasses can't come in either? Get outta here.
The Philadelphia courts are putting a ban on all those Smart and META AI eyeglasses, any jawn with recording features, starting March 30. And not just the glasses, but any other recording devices too. So if you were thinking of walking into a courtroom to, I don't know, record your cousin's appeal with your Ray-Ban Meta glasses, you better think again. This isn't just a suggestion; it's a hard ban. They're saying no video, no audio, no nothing.
### Why This Jawn Matters
* **Privacy, or nah?** This is about privacy, plain and simple. Imagine someone just recording everything in a courtroom without anyone knowing. That’s a whole different level of mess. * **Fairmount Park vibes:** Remember when they tried to ban drones in Fairmount Park? This feels kinda like that, but way more serious 'cause it's about people's cases and lives. * **Philly's got eyes:** We got cameras on every corner in this city already, from City Hall down to South Philly. Now they're just making sure YOU ain't adding to the collection without permission, especially in sensitive places.
This ban, it makes sense. You can't just have people walking around recording legal proceedings without proper authority. That's the jawn, Philly — we don't do fake out here. It's about maintaining the integrity of the courts, even if it means you gotta leave your high-tech sunnies at home. For real, this is a real Philly moment: adapting to new technology but making sure it don't mess with the way we do things.
That's the jawn, Philly — we don't do fake out here. The crew on the Morning Wire breaks down all the local jawns every day — catch 'em live at mornings.live.