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.
Lady (and I use the term loosely) you work for us or did you forget? Everything you do IS OUR business!
This is BS…they work for us….
Where is the freedom anymore, date by date the liberal, the left and democrat are taking that from thia country little by little. Wake up America, we dont want another Cuba or Venezuela…
If they are publicly speaking, we have every right to film them. F-that judge.
I have news for ya
Oh bull$#%&!@* This sight has more crazy$#%&!@*than Carter had peanuts!
Screw that.
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But the police are filmed all the time and private citizens too. Where has our privacy gone?
That true