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.
Police and elected officials are hired by there people to provide services the public needs. We are entitled to film our public servants and call them out for wrongdoing.
The court may say otherwise but they too are public servants and have to be held responsible for their actions.
Always trying to cover up their duty little deeds.. Pictures don’t lie … FB jeeps a close watch on us too… And yet the democrats are still blind
It’s called journalism, like it or not. The U.S. Constitution is to limit all government powers, not ours.
I’ve been kicked off FB several times…
You work for us ! I will film
Wrong. Public means something. So does public service. We can fill our employees as we wish.
B******t! Good luck with that you crime covering bastards!
B******t
The democrats will wake up fast when they go messing with their phones…
Exactly