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.
Your phone will change your words even if you spell them right. It is the program in your phone
So much for free press
A California court. This has already been decided in the Supreme Court and, like virtually all CA federal judges rulings, will be overturned.
The ACLU will have a Field Day with this one!
You can go around filming anyone you want. The SUPREME COURT has already ruled on this and a district court can’t overrule a supreme court decision. Citizens may film anything in public view from any public place.
But explain to me just how filming from across the street or from.10 feet away is interfering with the police. If you’re not in their way and not interjection narrative or questioning them, you can’t be interfering or impeding.
Finally, I’ve seen many publicly made videos of police shooting unarmed people, sicing dogs on people, beating the hell out of people handcuffed on the ground, etc.
Since their body cams miraculously never are working when questionable stuff happens, I think every citizen should film every police encounter they see.
Where do you live, Merle Shinault? I’ll be happy to show you that I can film you all day without your permission. By law, I can film you inside your home if I can see in from a public place.
When you’re in public, you have no credible expectation of privacy.
No. More lib dem attempts to stop truth.
I haven’t used film in 20 years
Hahahahaha try and stop them all hahahaha
Then you have no right to speak to us the way you do against our Mr President TRUMP