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.
BS!
Federal Court is Wrong. There is much legal precedent favoring the right to film/record/photograph anything that is in the public view. Wicked judges should be thrown in GitMo!
We’ll be recording you$#%&!@*you and the judge
What make politicians and police special. What harm does a photo do? Oh, it creates a record that could be used to prove what was said or done.
So with that being said, then they should no longer be allowed to film me in a public setting either.
No more red light cameras, surveillance cameras, toll booth cameras, police car dash cameras, body cameras, etc…
If it is good for the goose, it is good for the gander…
The courts have regularly stated that public officials have no expectation of privacy in the public. The courts’ rationale has been that recording such public officials allows for much better accountability, in order to deter public official corruption. This should go to SCOTUS and easily demonstrate the Clinton appointee as an idiot.
But they can record us from satellites drones or other devices in our own private property and even through windows in our homes???
When the government takes down all of the public surveillance cameras I will stop filming
If Politicians keep saying “No one is above the Law” so why do any public officials get special privilege not to be filmed in the public like all other citizen get filmed all the time. You cannot make up laws to protect oneself but you shall make laws to protect all.
If they weren’t doing anything wrong and against the law they would not mind being filmed. When you are in public you have given up the primacy of privacy so I say record away. Many of the things cops are doing these days are criminal and it is in no way less criminal just bc a criminal court said it’s ok