It's dodgy. I wish I could quote chapter and verse, but I don't recall. The closest you could come and /maybe/ get away with it, would be to have a cell activated and your lawyer on the line. LE would still cop a major attitude. They DO NOT like being documented. They have some laws or regulations backing them up on it as well. I looked into this about 5 years ago when a neighboring state was starting to get into the "Papers Please, Ausweiss Controll Bitte" mind set in their "war on drugs". The thought was for me, a clean for many years fellow, to drive a profilable vehicle in profilable manner, while wired through potential drug checkpoint areas trying to attract a bust. Our lawyer decided it was way too dodgy legally. Some folks are going to want to call bullshit on this, and I welcome it. I thought at the time, I could record, video tape, transmit pretty much whatever I wanted. Turned out that there are special "things" involved with surveilling the surveillers. On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, Jamie Lawrence wrote:
Sometime around 02:50 PM 10/18/2001 -0700, Steve Schear opined thusly:
Does anyone know the legal issues surrounding the act of taking a pocket tape recorder and recording at least my side of this sort of transaction?
I know what the likely result would be; I wondered if I had any obligation not to record anything I might happen to say while interacting with airport authorities.
-j