BOYNTON BEACH More than a decade after a Boynton Beach mother sued the city when police arrested her for filming them, a state appeals court has ruled against her.
City police in 2009 had the right to arrest Tasha Ford, the three-panel judge said Wednesday in a 2-1 ruling, for “obstruction” of their duties when she recorded them after they cuffed her son for sneaking into a movie theater. The judges’ decision upholds a Palm Beach County Circuit Court ruling.
Ford “failed to comply with the officers’ direction and requests,” Judges Melanie May and Edward Artau wrote. Officers had asked her to stop recording. “She obstructed their investigation and processing of her son’s detention.”