“The idea of private citizens filming the police doing their jobs—I don’t see anything wrong with that.” —former Ferguson police chief Tom Jackson The events of that October morning, which Whitt and ...
Filming police is a constitutionally protected right, multiple courts have ruled. The first press release from the city of Minneapolis following George Floyd’s murder stated he had died of a “medical ...
As longtime Reason readers are aware, police officers often don't like to be filmed by the public. Recently, an officer in Pennsylvania got so fed up with being recorded that he drove his car on the ...
Arguments were heard by the Montana Supreme Court during a hearing to decide if a man's First Amendment rights were violated when he was arrested for obstruction for filming a July 2022 traffic stop ...
Filming the police in a public space is a constitutional right. Actually doing it in Massachusetts could become harder under a new proposal. Law enforcement leaders are lobbying lawmakers to give ...
The American Civil Liberties Union of Connecticut filed a lawsuit against Waterbury police employees Tuesday for arresting a man who was filming the police station from a sidewalk. The ACLU filed the ...
An independent filmmaker says that he was filming a documentary outside of a Planned Parenthood in California when police handcuffed him, confiscated his equipment and forced him to sit in the back of ...