A federal judge ruled that the Cotati, California police chief violated a man’s free speech rights when he threatened him with arrest for videotaping him after a city council meeting. (Courthouse News Service, October 26, 2015, by Nicholas Iovino)
The judge ruled that George Barich was within his rights to film a government official in a public space. The judge noted that since 1990 it has been against the law for police to retaliate against citizens exercising their free speech rights. (The Volokh Conspiracy in The Washington Post, October 22, 2015, by Eugene Volokh)