Slashdot | Recording Police Misconduct is Illegal

[Greg Newby]

I followed a link in the /. thread to http://policeabuse.com , 
highly recommended.  They track episodes of police abuse, and
do some quality-control on the procedures police departments
to handle (or avoid) complaints.

They contend that taping police (video and/or audio) is legal in most
states, in most circumstances.  An alleged lawyer posted
to the /. discussion, saying the Mass. story the thread
is about was actually narrower than simply "recording
police is illegal."

This is a good opportunity to urge cp's who haven't yet,
to read David Brin's "Transparent Society."  It's pie in the
sky, but essentially advocates having cameras everywhere, so
that anyone anywhere can tap into a video feed.

  -- Greg


On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 07:16:36PM -0500, Aimee Farr wrote:
> 
> Sorry Choate, didn't catch your "analysis" in time. ;)
> 
> Your subj line is descriptive, but somewhat misleading.
>  
> ~Aimee
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-cypherpunks at lne.com [mailto:owner-cypherpunks at lne.com]On
> > Behalf Of Jim Choate
> > Sent: Saturday, July 14, 2001 6:47 PM
> > To: cypherpunks at einstein.ssz.com; hell at einstein.ssz.com
> > Subject: Slashdot | Recording Police Misconduct is Illegal
> > 
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> > http://slashdot.org/articles/01/07/14/0834224.shtml