faces 75 years in prison for recording law enforcement

[Serpo]

Wednesday, June 01 2011

Michael Allison faces 75 years in prison for recording law enforcement officials without their consent in Robinson, Illinois.

Illinois is one of the states applying old eavesdropping and wiretapping statutes to new technologies like cell phones or anything else that records audio.

Those laws technically make it illegal to record on-duty law enforcement officials without their consent. The penalty for that crime here in Illinois, is a class 1 felony.

VID also here........
http://mywabashvalley.com/fulltext?nxd_id=190687

[Gaillo]

Ah yes... our public "Servants" hard at work keeping us "safe" from the big evil videographers again. ::)

This kind of thing makes my blood BOIL... tell me, WHERE is the victim of this "crime"? From what I can see, it's the STATE that is the criminal in this situation!

Fucking corporate code-enforcement SWINE! :redfc

[Neuro]

But they can eavesdrop on any of our conversations without any consequence apart from ours!

[Dogman]

Ah yes... our public "Servants" hard at work keeping us "safe" from the big evil videographers again. ::)

This kind of thing makes my blood BOIL... tell me, WHERE is the victim of this "crime"? From what I can see, it's the STATE that is the criminal in this situation!

Fucking corporate code-enforcement SWINE! :redfc


Gaillo it goes to show they are afraid of people documenting "their" crimes and abuses! With cameras everywhere that is one "law" that will become harder and harder to uphold. If the cops that got recorded did not feel guilty of what they were doing , why go after him?

They remind me of "cockroaches" being afraid of the light of day, or in this case keeping truth in one's actions.

[horseshoe3]

"Why do you object if you have nothing to hide?"

Isn't that one of their favorite lines?

[dys]

This is awesome. It means that every single time law enforcement records us without our consent the people responsible will all go to jail for life! Right? Right? Bueller? Bueller? Bueller...

dys

[Ponce]

I do have a pen camera and a hat camera that unless you know what to look for you will not know that they are there.......I aready use the pen camera on someone who was getting rather nasty and when I show him the video he then became real "nice".

[mick silver]

people i and glad as hell i no longer live in a big city . i see a cop about once a week or so driving down the main road . when you come on my land you are recorded and i let people know that from the start . the guy down the road from me has a sign and it says . i will kill you if your on my land , and i dont give a f who you are

[Serpo]

didnt know Ponce was your neighbour......hehe

[po boy]

I recorded 2 deputies during an arrest and it saved me from a felony.

I believe the supreme court just ruled the cops can't make you quit recording them.

These days record every interaction with police, call it having an electronic witness.

[Glass]

You often find that there are 2 kinds of laws relating to recording. 1 relates to bugging or otherwise connecting some device to intercept and or record a wire communication like a telephone call. Then you can often find other laws that allow for the recording of conversations for the purposes of legal rights protection SO LONG AS it does not involve interferance with or connection to the telephone network. So an audio recording of a face to face conversation between to people would be ok. Even a conversation between 2 people using a telephone so long as the recording device is not attached to the telephone is ok. So using speaker phone and a recording device is usually ok. Using a sucker type mic attached to the phone handset would probably not be ok.

Recording video is often ok so long as it does not include anyones speech.

Whether or not both parties need to know the recording is being made really depends on the statutes or codes concerned.

Down here in Oz, so long as one party to the conversation is aware it is being records i.e. you, then it is ok. Check your local laws and DYODD.