With the advent of cellphones as a standard device carried by hundreds of millions daily, the ability of citizens to film police and politicians in public settings has increased accountability for those holding positions of public trust.
Unfortunately, a growing trend of judicial tyranny could curtail a person’s right to access their phone to suddenly film an event unfolding before them in a public setting.
First Amendment rights advocates argue that the right to film public events should never be abrogated, given the protections of the U.S. Constitution.
But with the judiciary having more statist judges in place, it’s become more challenging to protect these most basic rights.
In the federal Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals in Missouri, a recent ruling has struck down the right to film public officials in a public setting. On the next page, learn how the dispute may have to head to the Supreme Court to get resolved.
Oh, what about the news media?
Obozo and his communist anti-Freedom values
loosing it again
YES WE DO U ALL R$#%&!@*KISSERS
Then they don’t have the right to film us on every damn street corner either. They are nothing special, stupid.
They don’t like being busted for the crimes they do
Doesn’t it seem likely that a SCOTUS ruling will include the common sense statement that any public official who acts in a public setting can expect to be observed by the public, which has the right to record their own experiences.
Hasn’t it already been ruled by them that when out in public, one has no legitimate expectation of privacy?
We h as be an absolute right! PERIOD!
They just don’t know the Constitution. Damn Libtards
What part of SERVANT of the PUBLIC does she not understand???