The debate over abortion access in West Virginia has spawned a civil suit over the public’s ability to record lawmakers discussing the issue.
State Senate President Craig Blair, R-Berkeley, is named as the lead defendant in a free-speech lawsuit filed by Tiffani Morgan Walton. In her suit filed Monday afternoon in Charleston federal court, the 28-year-old resident of Frankford in Greenbrier County alleges Blair and West Virginia Capitol Police officers not only violated her First Amendment rights, but also the state open-meetings law when they stopped her from recording debate on a bill to ban abortions before escorting her out of the Senate gallery.
