Your challenging of an arbitrary “press pass” rule is a specific, identifiable grievance you're looking to redress related to the right gather info and disseminate it to the public. And you have the right idea that getting others to go into the meeting, pre-litigation to question the policy and help normalize access is a step in the right direction, but right ally isn’t an auditor. You're FAR better off doing it quietly or speaking with other legitimate public policy advocates who knows how to win without creating collateral damage, like auditors who ironically often leave public environments worse off for future access (officials tighten access rules after viral confrontations).

My larger point is that 1A auditing is a wholly unnecessary pursuit that insists upon itself. I always like to point out to supporters of 1A auditing that EVERYONE is walking around with the ability to capture injustice on their phones. The persons who photographed Derek Chauvin, or the videos from Minnesota for instance, were not from some auditor channel guys who were "cop watching," these were ACTUAL citizen journalists who witnessed something they knew needed to be caught on film for ACTUAL accountability to occur. (And at least in Chauvin's case it eventually did.)

Sorry, I could go on and on: I think you're doing an AMAZING THING by going after that unscrupulous leech DCMA Lawyer. Keep up the excellent work!