Nice to see that the ACLU isn’t completely useless:
The Supreme Court has rejected an Illinois prosecutor’s plea to allow enforcement of a law aimed at stopping people from recording police officers on the job.
The justices on Monday left in place a lower court ruling that found that the state’s anti-eavesdropping law violates free speech rights when used against people who tape law enforcement officers. The law sets out a maximum prison term of 15 years.
Here’s a really good, really useful rule of thumb for handling any Constitutional situation not explicitly spelled out in the document in question: if the question at hand is Would the Founders have trusted federal, state and/or local government to do X without some kind of oversight then the default answer is going to be The answer is going to not just be “No.” It’s going to be “HELL, NO.”
Idiot.
Moe Lane
Had a long conversation with a co-worker who was originally from Belarus. The guy was concerned about his son taking photographs of police cars. I said it was legal.
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This would have been a decade ago, and .. I’m glad I’m still right.
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Mew
I’m tempted to get one of these just to spite the authorities in my dear Lincolnland state:
http://store.komando.com/p-1568-the-komando-dash-cam.aspx