DC polics issue order affirming public's right to record police officers on duty

07/24/12: The Blog of Legal Times reports Washington’s Metropolitan Police Department has issued a new general order spelling out the public’s right to photograph and record police officers carrying out official business.  Jerome Vorus, who claimed he was wrongfully detained after filming police on duty, sued the city last June in the US District Court for the District of Columbia.  His attorney, Arthur Spitzer of the American Civil Liberties Union, filed a voluntary dismissal Monday and confirmed that the new general order was part of the settlement agreement.  The order, which went into effect July 19, “explicitly recognizes and instructs all the members of the police department that people have a constitutional right to video and audio record them while they're doing public business in a public place,” said Spitzer.