re: #570 Cato the Elder

This will eventually be tested in court.

With nearly everyone walking around carrying a phone equipped with a camera or camera-video capacity, and given that police work in public places is a public event, I am betting that eventually the police will lose the right to say “you can’t record this”.

Meanwhile, when they’re acting like pigs, any attempt to document their porcine behavior will be subject to further porcine behavior.

You would hope. I think Md and Ill are the only 2 states where it’s illegal. Ill just passed a law this summer making sure it’s illegal. The ACLU just filed a suit:

Illinois ACLU To Challege State Wiretapping Law
theagitator.com

I’ve written a couple pieces now about how the Illinois wiretapping law is the toughest in the country, and has been used to charge people who record on-duty police officers with a felony punishable by 4 to 15 years in prison (for each recording). This week, the Illinois ACLU filed a challenge to the law.