New Bill Will Make It Illegal For You To Record Police In Texas. So here are the facts police officers can record or not record themselves using a body camera, the radio or news cast can record, but the everyday person can’t. In fact if you record an officer within 100ft of an incident you can get a misdemeanor. This sounds real shady to me! Doesn’t this violate the the first amendment? What do you think?. Check out the tweet in the gallery.More details after the jump.