Latest Updates on Protected Activity; Confiscating Video Evidence; Freedom of Speech and the Public Employee

For our Professional Subscribers – Please find links to Bob Phillips’ latest update on “Constitutionally Protected Expressive Activity and the First Amendment – Who Ya Going to Call“ (7/22). This is a companion article to his recent update on "Confiscating Video Evidence and the first Amendment Rights" (07/22). Also, find his most recent research and analysis covering “Shooting the Messenger - First Amendment Freedom of Speech and the Public Employee” (7/22). As always, please log into our website and click on above links to view, print or save a PDF of any of our material.

These articles cover important situations which you could encounter in the scope of your duties and offer guidance on how to “legally proceed”:

• A person uses a cell phone to record criminal activity or your activity in the field and this recording is potential evidence in a case.
• You respond to a merchant complaint of demonstrators, protestors, solicitors, pamphlet distributors, etc. outside her business and the merchant wants you to intervene
• When a public agency seeks to restrict their employee’s Facebook or other social media postings contending such content impacts the ....