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Re: gargoyling the police site (fwd)

There's an obvious solution, actually. We just make sure
everyone starts wearing t-shirts with the slogan "I may be
recording this." I do mean EVERYBODY! Little kids, African-Americans,
college students, and (of course) borgs... (-8

---- Jason Sheldon <> wrote:
> 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.

Actually, the justices who decided the case (and it was local)
reluctantly classified the recording as "illegal wiretapping"
because (paraphrasing them) "if we allow this the police
would have to be continually afraid their behavior was being
monitored."

Well, yeah, that's the whole idea, right? If the POLICE were
continually monitored, we wouldn't have juries discounting
or throwing out their testimony because of what we know what
they get up to secretly.

> 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.
> >

That's right, laws against recording conversations differ
from state to state (and possibly with municipality as well).
In fact, in NYC the law is such that if you leave a hidden
camera (i.e., disguised in something connected to your VCR)
to monitor YOUR OWN PREMISES in case of a break-in while
you're away, you have to disconnect or disable the audio
and only record the video signal!

Cheers --
CS


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