Tuesday, September 10, 2013
"Yes, You Have the Right to Record the Police"
I'm pretty sure law enforcement doesn't like it...
At PopularMechanics.com, Morgan Leigh Manning provides this within her posted article:
"In recent years, at least two federal courts of appeals have explicitly recognized the right to record the actions of on-duty police officers. In 2011's Glik v. John Cunniffe, the First Circuit ruled that a man wrongly arrested for recording police officers could sue the arresting officers for violating his First Amendment rights. The Court found a broad First Amendment right to record on-duty government officials in public, stating, "[G]athering information about government officials in a form that can readily be disseminated to others serves a cardinal First Amendment interest in protecting and promoting 'the free discussion of government affairs.'"