Recording can create complications if you interfere with police activities or violate other laws while filming. Physical obstruction charges apply when your recording prevents officers from performing duties. For example, blocking officers’ movements, refusing to comply with dispersal orders, or recording from unsafe positions may justify intervention. Trespassing laws apply to recording on private property […]

In a recent ruling by the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania, in the case of Sivick v. State Ethics Commission, 252 C.D. 2018; 2019 Pa. Commw. Unpub. LEXIS 1*: WL 81867, decided January 3, 2019; Reconsideration denied, February 1, 2019, the Court held in an unreported opinion, that a Township Supervisor used the authority of his […]