State lawmakers are moving forward with a bill that would give people the right to sue police officers who interfere with their ability to record video or photographs of cops on the job, CT News Junkie reported.
The Judiciary Committee forwarded the bill to the state Senate Friday. State Sen. Martin Looney, D‑New Haven, introduced the bill and told CT News Junkie he hopes the state’s House of Representatives, where the bill died the past two years, will pass it in 2013.
Looney believes there’s a greater degree of comfort with the bill this year given all of the publicity surrounding the issue — like the case of Jennifer Gondola, an Ansonia woman arrested in New Haven last summer after refusing to turn over her cell phone while recording an arrest.
Click the play button above to see the video that got Gondola in hot water. Her arrest was eventually thrown out and the police officer she captured on her iPhone was suspended for 15 days for violating department rules and standing on the handcuffed suspect’s neck.
Click here to read the entire report from CT News Junkie’s Christine Stuart.
