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Re: gargoyling the police site (fwd)

Actually, the case said it was illegal to secretly record.  If you get 
pulled-over and you stick a microphone in the police face, then thats legal.

Jason

On Wednesday 10 October 2001 02:06 pm, Lenny Foner wrote:
>     Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2001 01:01:33 -0400
>     From: Bryan Hurley <>
>
>     It recently became law in the U.S.A. for it to be ILLEGAL for the
> person being stopped by the police to record the incident, whereas more and
> more police cars now have video cameras to record the person being stopped,
> which is only available to the police, not the defendant most likely....
>
> There was a court case -in Massachusetts- which decided this.
>
> I'm unaware of any US-wide precedent.
>
> Can you cite caselaw to support this, please?  The MA situation
> is awful enough, but I don't think it applies nationwide, yet.

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