Yes.
Filming police is a constitutionally protected right, multiple courts have ruled.
The first news release from the city of Minneapolis after George Floyd’s murder said he had died of a “medical emergency.” It was a citizen filming at the scene who first exposed that former police officer Derek Chauvin had leaned on Floyd’s neck for 9 minutes and 29 seconds.
Multiple federal circuit courts have concluded that citizens have a First Amendment right to film the police performing their duties in public. The U.S. Supreme Court has not directly ruled on a case addressing the issue.
Bottom line: Taking photographs and video in public spaces is protected speech. Therefore, filming police in public spaces is protected. But the way courts interpret this right historically has varied.
For example, a 2022 law in Arizona made it illegal to knowingly take video of police officers from an 8-foot-or-closer vantage point without an officer’s permission.
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