A New Jersey town where a police officer was videotaped making critical remarks about President Barack Obama is reconsidering a law that would require people to get permits to photograph or film inside public buildings.
The borough of Helmetta said on its website that the proposal was withdrawn from Wednesday's council meeting so that officials could make revisions.
The requirement was excluded for public meetings under the original ordinance.
The proposal came about a month after police officer Richard Recine was videotaped in the municipal building making critical remarks about Obama and the Constitution
Recine was videotaped during in an angry exchange in which he denied a resident's public records request, according to the Star-Ledger.
"Obama has decimated the friggin' constitution, so I don't give a damn," Recine says on the video. "If he doesn't follow the Constitution, we don't have to."
Recine has since resigned.
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Officials from the American Civil Liberties Union say the proposal was overbroad and would violate free speech rights.
Helmetta officials did not return calls for comment.
