New Yorkers can’t record officers in police station lobbies under state law, the Court of Appeals ruled last week, drawing ire from civil rights attorneys and elected officials who say the decision ignores what the state legislation in question, which some of them helped write, was trying to accomplish.
In a unanimous opinion written by Associate Justice Jenny Rivera, the state’s highest court ruled that because laws that permit recording police in public places, known as Right to Record Acts, don’t explicitly say people are allowed to record in public police station lobbies, people can’t capture video of officers there.
