The NPPA has announced that it will instruct police, first responders, and journalists across the United States about citizens’ right to record police and officials who are carrying out their public duties.
A group of five photojournalists who were arrested and or beaten during last year’s protests against racial injustice has sued the NYPD in an attempt to stop what they call egregious and repeated violations of journalists’ right to record police activity on public streets.
Journalism and civil rights groups have joined in the effort to overturn a West Palm Beach appeals court decision that they think could block the public and press from filming police in the future. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has urged the 4th District Court of Appeals to reconsider its decision to uphold the […]