BREAKING: The NPPA has joined with the ACLU and nine other media organizations to file a lawsuit against Arizona’s law that restricts the recording of police.
The National Press Photographers Association has joined with the Arizona Broadcasters Association and the American Civil Liberties Union of Arizona to file a lawsuit against Arizona’s law that restricts the recording of police.was signed into law in July and was set to go into effect on September 24. The law prohibits anyone within eight feet of law enforcement officers from recording police activity.
In a press release, the NPPA states that the constitutional right to record police engaged in official duties is one of the public’s most effective accountability tools against police wrongdoing and is one of the few ways community members and the media can hold police accountable. “We fear that, rather than acting as a shield to ensure ‘officer safety,’ this law will serve as a sword to abridge the ‘clearly established’ First Amendment right to video record police officers performing their official duties in public,” NPPA general counsel Mickey H. Osterreicher says.The NPPA argues that the law puts too much power in the hands of individual officers to stop someone from recording them if they don’t want to be recorded.
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