Local News Station Recording And Possibly Broadcasting Images Of My House
Hey all, My wife and I bought our house in the state of Maryland about 2 years ago. It was not disclosed to us, but we found out shortly after purchase that it had been the scene of a crime. Being a lil vague for ananomity but yea, a serious crime... The crime occured nearly 2.5 years ago, and the perpetrator stood trail and was sentenced something like 6 months ago.
Today, a major local news station rolled up in front of the house with big ass cameras and was just shooting video straight at our house. My wife walked out and asked what was going on and the camera people explained it was to do a story about the crime, and that they'd be coming back later at night to get some dark spooky shots.
This isn't really pertinent to the law, but we actually moved here to get away from a neighborhood creep (restraining order, death threats, the whole deal), have a newborn baby, and really have no desire for our house, with our cars parked in front to be featured on the local news.
Do I have any recourse? I know media outlets understandably get a lot of leeway with access and what is public information, but all of the news reports to this prior to this only had the block of the street and had the full address redacted, and didn't just show a single shot of OUR HOUSE. Our house number is stamped clearly on the front of our house.
I did all the research I could short of contacting a lawyer, and didn't find anything helpful. Have a feeling it's a 'too bad' situation but would love for someone to be able to site something that could give me a leg to stand on to keep my residence, address, house, out of the local news.
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