It is time to unseal these court records to shine a spotlight on whether the Sheriff’s Department used the arrests and search warrant to punish individuals for exercising their First Amendment rights,” Susan Seager wrote in the motion to unseal.
FAC told the Cypress City Council how a local ordinance restricting comment at council meetings violates freedom of speech.
The bill would ensure the public and press access to law enforcement radio transmissions.
“Critique of government is democracy, not defamation,” FAC Legal Director David Loy told city officials.
A special message on landmark legal settlement affirming your right to film federal officials in public areas at land ports of entry The right to record law enforcement activity is entrenched in First Amendment law, but it took an eight-year lawsuit to uphold it at U.S. land ports of entry, which are often critical community hubs. For example, the San Ysidro Port of Entry between San Diego and Tijuana is the busiest land port of
