Denver, Colorado: Violations of First Amendment Right to Record Police

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The Supreme Court Declines To Determine if You Have a First Amendment Right To Film the Police

1 November 2021

The Supreme Court has just refused to hear a case at the nexus of police abuse and the First Amendment, declining to consider a petition from a man who says his free speech rights were violated when a group of cops searched his tablet without a warrant and attempted to delete a video he took of them beating a suspect. Officers with the Denver Police Department (DPD) cornered Levi Frasier in the summer of 2014 after they noticed he had recorded an altercation moments prior. The video showed a cop punching a suspect in the face six times while executing ...

The Supreme Court Declines To Determine if You Have a First Amendment Right To Film the Police

Denver cops received qualified immunity after performing a warrantless search of a man’s tablet and trying to delete a video he took of them beating a suspect.

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Supreme Court Takes A Pass On A Chance To Firmly Establish A Right To Record Police Officers

16 November 2021

After taking some positive steps towards trimming the growth of qualified immunity it had itself encouraged for years, the Supreme Court decided to reverse course. Two more cases on the court's "shadow docket" were sent back to the appellate levels with instructions to reverse the stripping of qualified immunity from government employees accused of rights violations. Note that refusing to grant qualified immunity does not guarantee a win for the plaintiff. All the removal of this immunity does is allow the court to consider more facts and place unresolved questions in front of a jury… you know, the sort of ...

Supreme Court Takes A Pass On A Chance To Firmly Establish A Right To Record Police Officers

After taking some positive steps towards trimming the growth of qualified immunity it had itself encouraged for years, the Supreme Court decided to reverse course. Two more cases on the court's "shadow docket" were sent back to the...

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DOJ Asks Tenth Circuit Appeals Court To Firmly Establish A Right To Record Police Officers

30 November

Earlier this year, the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals decided there was no right to record police officers. In a case involving a man who had his tablet seized and searched by Denver, Colorado police officers when they discovered he was recording them, the Appeals Court sided with the cops, awarding them qualified immunity. The judges did this despite the officers being specifically instructed that there was a presumed right to record police officers via training that had been in place for years prior to this incident. The plaintiff attempted to have this case reheard by the Supreme Court, which ...

DOJ Asks Tenth Circuit Appeals Court To Firmly Establish A Right To Record Police Officers

Earlier this year, the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals decided there was no right to record police officers. In a case involving a man who had his tablet seized and searched by Denver, Colorado police officers when they discovered he was recording...

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Appeals Court Corrects Its Previous Error, Holds That Recording Cops Is A Clearly Established Right

25 July 2022

In April 2021, the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals forced itself through uncomfortable legal contortions to award qualified immunity to Denver, Colorado police officers who detained a man, seized his recording device, and made an apparent attempt to delete his recording. According to the Appeals Court, this was legal and not a violation of rights. The judges pointed to a local law that forbade lying to cops, albeit a law that didn’t actually address what had happened here. The plaintiff, Levi Frasier, told the cops he wasn’t recording them. That was a lie, but it was not illegal. The cited ...

Appeals Court Corrects Its Previous Error, Holds That Recording Cops Is A Clearly Established Right

In April 2021, the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals forced itself through uncomfortable legal contortions to award qualified immunity to Denver, Colorado police officers who detained a man, seized hi…

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