Juridical-constitutional aspects of the prohibitionof recording images of the members of the security forces and safety bodies in relation with the informative freedoms

Abstract

The recent offer to prohibit to record images of the members of the security forces and safety bodies makes that we wonder for its lace in the rule of law and in the democracy. The above mentioned offer is based on the protection of the members´ physical integrity, of their reputation or their own image, depending from whom defends it. The result of that prohibition is not other one that the limitation or, of fact, suppression of the called like informative freedoms, guaranteed in the article 20 of the Constitution of 1978. Repeated constitutional jurisprudence, as well as for the most part of the doctrine, estimates that the above mentioned freedoms cannot turns reduced or despised in all that they do not have their purpose in themselves but from their exercise there is expected a social repercussion that comes out of what is common and proper of the fundamental rights, giving place to the public opinion, pillar of a free and democratic society and, consequently, a previous and necessary condition for the exercise of other rights.