News - Articles tagged with First Amendment

• "Literally every day, someone is being arrested for doing nothing more than taking a photograph in a public place"

  August 14, 2012

• Photographer's Rights: NYPD's Backwards Policy on Photography at Occupy Wall Street

  August 7, 2012

• Tracking Journalist Arrests at Occupy Protests Around the Country, Part Two

  August 6, 2012

• NYPD 'consistently violated basic rights' during Occupy protests – Report by NYU and Fordham law schools

  July 25, 2012

• "It is neither a police officer’s duty or right to decide what is appropriate news coverage of any story"

  June 27, 2012

• “That the First Amendment right to gather news is . . . not one that inures solely to the benefit of the news media; rather, the public’s right of access to information is coextensive with that of the press"

  June 10, 2012