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.
What utter bs
Another corrupt bunch of corrupt judges
Well you wouldn’t worry about it if you wouldn’t doing something wrong idiot but the government can break in on her cell phones and everything else I’ll privacy go screw yourself Nancy Pelot see is nothing but a damn idiot
WTF
Well I’ll just makesure to film the surroundings and if they get in my video then its on them….always a way around that liberal idiotic logic
BS!!
That’s okay; cell phones don’t use film anyway.
B.s. stupid
The court has no right! They don’t respect America people!
Good thing SCOTUS already ruled you can…