The courts are starting to recognize that recording on-duty police is a protected First Amendment activity. However, at the present time, police around the country continue to intimidate and arrest citizens for recording them. We should hold police officers personally liable for violating a citizen's First Amendment right to videotape their actions in Louisiana. The most powerful tool for justice is an honest record of a citizen's encounter with the police. The police are granted the right to arrest and in some cases kill citizens. It is not too much to ask that we be allowed to record our interactions with police without fear of arrest. For too long courts have uncritically accepted police testimony. Lets change this in Louisiana. Good cops have nothing to fear from being recorded by citizens and bad cops will be deterred by the knowledge that their misconduct is apt to be recorded. Louisiana House of Representatives and Senate: please draft a bill that would protect the right of an individual to photograph or video record peace officers in the performance of their duties.