FIRE filed a lawsuit on behalf of documentary filmmakers to block the National Park Service from enforcing its filming permit and fee requirements against the public.
Many of them are future commissioned officers in the U.S. Military. They are also student journalists. And before ever taking the battlefield, they are already fighting for First Amendment principles.
The First Amendment protects the right to share lawfully-obtained information the government would prefer kept quiet. But California’s anti-dissemination statute flouts that freedom.