Federal Judge Says There's No First Amendment Right to Record the Cops

Federal District Court Judge Suzanne Conlon has dismissed (PDF) an ACLU challenge to the Illinois law that makes recording someone in a public space without their permission a felony punishable by up to 15 years in prison. As I've reported here, the law is used almost exclusively against people who attempt to record on-duty police officers. The ACLU was seeking declarative and injunctive relief to prevent the police from arresting workers and volunteers who planned to record police at an anti-war protest this spring.

Read full article at this link:

http://reason.com/blog/2011/01/19/federal-judge-says-theres-no-f


For further reading, "Technology and Police Hypocrisy" is an excellent article found at this link:

http://msmreview.blogspot.com/2010/06/technology-and-police-hypocrisy.html