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.
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This is insane. If these liberal Marxist Democrats are not stopped we will be living in North Korea before long !
That Court does not represent America.
You have “no reasonal expectation of privacy” when your on a public easement, like a sidewalk, alley or side of a non frwy alley.
If you’re in public, you can’t expect privacy! I don’t give two shits who you are!!
They can if they have permission.
Federal court is not SCOTUS. They are the court set up specifically to make constitutional rulings not federal courts.
BS
Reject , nullify and don’t comply , 10th amendment !
I thought the constitution covered all of that ! But it sounds as if Mozou votes for all crooks. What’s the “Big P” got to hide, as if we didn’t know. Skitttttt’em trump.