Cop Shoots Dog
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- mg330
And one view of that is all I can handle.
monospaced - In Illinois, they had a law since 1961 called the Illinois Eavesdropping Act, and police punished people for recording the police without consent. The US Supreme Court ruled that it violated the 1st amendment in 2012.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/20…
I think there are other cities and states where similar laws were used against citizens, but this was apparently one of the toughest in the country.
From http://www.rcfp.org/browse-media…
The law, first enacted in 1961, criminalizes the audio recording of any communication without the consent of all parties involved, regardless of whether the conversation was intended to be private or whether the recording was made surreptitiously. Under the statute, individuals cannot record conversations of police officers openly engaged in their public duties. Having survived the recent explosion of handheld technologies that make audio recording discreet and the intensified rigor of government accountability, the law is still on the books today.
- VA - guy on his motorcycle got arrested for "wiretapping" due to he was filming his ride.akrok