Four residents of Springfield say their municipal government doesn’t have the legal right to bar the public from recording council meetings.

Daniel Page, Karen Laronde, Janet Nylen and Gloria Romaniuk have enlisted the help of constitutional lawyers in their legal battle against the rural municipality.

They filed a notice of application in June in which they want the Manitoba Court of King’s Bench to rule the municipality is either violating the provincial Municipal Act or their right to free expression under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

“This case concerns the recording of public meetings of municipalities and its importance to freedom of expression,” reads a legal brief filed this week in support of the application.

The application asks the court to declare that the applicants

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