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Court of Appeals – Recording police activity: Reyes v. City of New York
Daily Record Staff//July 7, 2026//
Court of Appeals – Recording police activity: Reyes v. City of New York
Daily Record Staff//July 7, 2026//
New York State Court of Appeals
Recording police activity — Publicly accessible lobby
No. 59
Judge Rivera
Background: The plaintiff is a self-described independent journalist who records his encounters with public officials and posts the videos to several online social media platforms. He made a recording in the publicly accessible lobby of a NYPD precinct and was arrested. The Second Circuit Court of Appeals certified a question regarding the recording of police activities in a police stationhouse.
Ruling: The Court of Appeals held that New York state and city laws that codified private right to record police activities do not apply inside a police stationhouse, including its publicly accessible lobby.
Chase Henry Mechanick for the appellant; Andrew Case for the respondent.
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