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.
That’s never gonna stop happening
Federal courts wrong again ! People have rights , courts do not !
Really?
In public , on a public street , serving the people who pay them with public funds, what don’t you understand about us filming public workers doing or not doing there jobs that we pay them to do ..You are paid by us also you idiot and you embarrass yourself in public on a daily basis and That’s all recorded for repay by the public . And boy do we repay your stupid answers over and over. You really are STUPID, as a PUBLIC figure in America.
If we don’t have the right then they don’t have it also ..
Yes F you
Coward you can tell what to do
Ok
Hi F you’re you know what
Makes one wonder what they’re afraid of getting caught doing in public?
Our cameras have proven to be a tool of truth. What certain politicians don’t have any idea what that is. Corruption never wants to be filmed. If what they are doing is legal, they have nothing to worry about. The judge is a violation of public trust and must be removed. We don’t pay for rights take away
Bull c**p. Unconstitutional
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