The Right to Record Act would let Americans sue federal law enforcement officers who interfere with filming or observing police activity.
  • TachyonTele@piefed.socialEnglish
    7·
    18 days ago

    Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D–Conn.) and Rep. Maxwell Frost (D–Fla.) introduced the “Right to Record Act of 2026,” which they say would create new consequences for individual federal officers who violate a person’s First Amendment right to document and record police.

    Hell yeah. Bad ass!

    …it is currently next-to-impossible under current law and Supreme Court precedent to sue an individual federal law enforcement officer for a constitutional violation.

    . . . Oh. So it’s dead in the water. Great.

    • rollerbang@lemmy.world
      5·
      18 days ago

      The way I’m reading it says that the precedent and current law make it currently impossible. But introduction a new law would override the precedent.