Electronic Frontier Foundation has a story (Oct. 7) by
Sophia Cope and Adam Schwartz about an amicus brief it wrote before the First
Circuit in Boston for the case Martin v. Rollins. The case had been brought by the ACLU to challenge
the Massachusetts anti-eavesdropping statue which would outlaw the secret
recording of all conversations, even in public.
The First Circuit has previously upheld a First
Amendment right to record police officers’ audio, and that did not override the
state’s anti-eavesdropping statute.
Five appellate jurisdictions have upheld a right of
citizens to record police activity, including audio.
Video: Ford Fischer from the Defending Freedom Action
Summit, Arlington, VA, Jan. 2019, on the right to film the police, News2Share.
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