- (a) Expanded media coverage or audio media coverage must be conducted in conformity with applicable statutes, rules, and caselaw.
- (b) Nothing herein shall alter the obligation of any attorney to comply with the provisions of the Rules of Professional Conduct governing trial publicity.
- (c) Except as otherwise provided by these rules, electronic recording by moving camera, still camera, and audio device, and broadcasting is prohibited as to all judicial proceedings in a courtroom during sessions of a trial court. This prohibition does not apply to the use of cameras in a courtroom for courtroom security purposes, the videotaped or audio recording of proceedings to create the official record of a case, or to interactive video hearings.
- (d) If the court and all parties consent in writing or on the record at least one week prior to the commencement of a judicial proceeding, the court may authorize expanded media coverage of the proceeding under the conditions and standards set forth in these rules.
- (e) If the court consents in writing or on the record at least one week prior to the commencement of a judicial proceeding, it may authorize audio media coverage of the proceeding, or a portion thereof, under the conditions and standards set forth in these rules that are applicable to audio coverage.
Source: SL 2011, ch 233 (Supreme Court Rule 10-09), eff. July 1, 2011.