Your papers please

[cubic-dog]

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:
> 
> 
> >http://cgi.newcity.com/exitlog/frameset.php?close=http://www.citypaper.net/articles/101801/news.godfrey.shtml&back=http://www.newcity.com
> 
> 
> 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
>