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.
Let’s get rid of federal judges they have no common sense anymore
Let me get this straight. You can’t film in public, PUBLIC servants like PUBLIC representatives and policemen who protect and serve the PUBLIC?
DEMORCRATS TRYING TO MAKE AMERICA INTO A GLOBLIZED NATION FOR THE UN TO COME IN AND DESTROY THE CONSTITUTION OF AMERICA.
FOR ALL YOU IDIOT FOLLOWERS OF THE LEFT. I HAVE A SIMPLE QUESTION FOR YOU ALL.
WHY FO YOU THINK IMMIGRANTS FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD WANT TO COME TO AMERICA?
F**e news
Duh!! Does that mean Hillary gets a free ride !! Nancy, the mental ward is calling you !! It’s time for your shock treatment !
She is so a shame of what she did or said that the public would know… a pathway to China
Actions performed in public can be recorded by citizens. NO court has the right to ban the practice. The court is wrong on this one.
b******t
If they can film us we can film them!!
Courts already ruled that we do have the right to film.