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.
I guess politicians don’t like wing caught in the act, or at least the guilty ones.
And if the police are being fair and correct in their duties they shouldn’t have anything to be shy about.
I suspect this violates a couple of amendments.
I wonder if this applies to the press and other medias, or just those they wish to subjugate.
What cha trying to hide?
Oh yes we do and I will
Me to what’s fair for one is fair for all.This is still America.
BULLSH*T!!
We deserve the same,, no more surveillance on public…same laws apply.
Supreme Court ruled on it 3 years ago we have the right
BUll S**t
Can’t hide from God
Democrats have no say. The republicans won the house and Senate.