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.
F**k that. They record us all the time. Cameras on street light poles, body cams and using facial recognition. I’ll record whomever the$#%&!@*I please in public. Pulled over? I’m recording everything. This is America and they can kiss my$#%&!@*
We’re supposed to photograph them in private????
Keep the pols out of the public.
What idiot decided that?
That’s corruption
You people can kiss Political Correctness good bye. With technology as it is today you can’t stop anyone from filming. The courts would be filled and running for years if they try to enforce a law like this one!!!
The great united prison
This is WRONG!
I can see the courtrooms and jails just full of these crazed criminals. Imagine a political rally of several thousand people all with cellphones, got the picture, ludicrous.
Another freedom taken away