Now that (since August 2011) "the court" has ruled it is legal to take pictures and videos in public places of police working and acting with or without decorum someone should pass it along to our Wisconsin Legislature.
The complete ruling is available in a link at the bottom of summary as above ...
United States Court of Appeals
For the First Circuit
No. 10-1764 ....
LIPEZ, Circuit Judge. Simon Glik was arrested for using
his cell phone's digital video camera to film several police
officers arresting a young man on the Boston Common. The charges
against Glik, which included violation of Massachusetts's wiretap
statute and two other state-law offenses, were subsequently judged
baseless and were dismissed. Glik then brought this suit under 42
U.S.C. § 1983, claiming that his arrest for filming the officers
constituted a violation of his rights under the First and Fourth
Amendments.
In this interlocutory appeal, the defendant police
officers challenge an order of the district court denying them
qualified immunity on Glik's constitutional claims. We conclude,
based on the facts alleged, that Glik was exercising clearly-
established First Amendment rights in filming the officers in a
public space, and that his clearly-established Fourth Amendment
rights were violated by his arrest without probable cause. We
therefore affirm. ...
WI 1848 Forward: #Court says #public has right to #video #police in public places: #UniversalHub #47% #99% vs #1%
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