Law Practice,
Criminal,
Constitutional Law
Mar. 22, 2022
Can journalists remain after declaration of an unlawful assembly?
When Gov. Gavin Newsom signed the Senate Bill 98, media groups hailed its passage and reported that it “exempts media professionals from having to comply with dispersal orders while covering protests, marches, and other types of demonstrations.”
Daniel S. Roberts
Partner
Cota & Huber LLP
Phone: (909) 230-4209
Email: droberts@colehuber.com
USC Law School; Los Angeles CA
Dan Roberts is the managing partner of the firm's Southern California office in Ontario. He focusses his practice on municipal litigation, including police-liability matters.
The First Amendment protects many of our most cherished rights, including not only the right to peaceably assemble and to protest ("petition the Government for a redress of grievances"), but also the freedom of the press to report on such demonstrations. Yet, the First Amendment itself does not provide the press any special right of access to such events beyond that available to the general public.
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