{"id":6949,"date":"2012-04-06T17:03:55","date_gmt":"2012-04-06T17:03:55","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-04-06T17:03:55","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=6949","title":{"rendered":"Reason: “7 Rules for Recording Police”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reason: 7 Rules for Recording Police, Courts are expanding rights but cops are cracking down. Find out how to keep your footage, and yourself, out of trouble<\/a> by Steve Silverman:<\/p>\n

Last week the City of Boston agreed to pay Simon Glik $170,000 in damages and legal fees to settle a civil rights lawsuit stemming from his 2007 felony arrest for videotaping police roughing up a suspect. Prior to the settlement, the First Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously ruled that Glik had a \u201cconstitutionally protected right to videotape police carrying out their duties in public.\u201d The Boston Police Department now explicitly instructs its officers not to arrest citizens openly recording them in public.<\/p>\n

Slowly but surely the courts are recognizing that recording on-duty police is a protected First Amendment activity. But in the meantime, police around the country continue to intimidate and arrest citizens for doing just that. So if you\u2019re an aspiring cop watcher you must be uniquely prepared to deal with hostile cops.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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