“Earlier this year, the Illinois Supreme Court struck down a state eavesdropping law that made it a crime for citizens to record conversations with police or anyone else without the other person’s permission. The court held that the old law “criminalize[d] a wide range of innocent conduct” and violated free-speech rights. In particular, the court noted the state could not criminalize recording activities where there is no reasonable expectation of privacy, including citizens’ “public” encounters with police.
Now the old law is back, with just a few changes, in a new bill sent to the governor’s desk by the Illinois Senate on Dec. 4. The bill not only passed, but did so overwhelmingly with votes of 106-7 in the House on and 46-4-1 in the Senate.
The new version is nearly as bad as the old one.” *
Ben Mankiewicz (What The Flick?! & Turner Classic Movies; http://www.twitter.com/BenMank77), Jimmy Dore (TYTComedy, The Jimmy Dore Show; http://www.twitter.com/jimmy_dore) & Ana Kasparian (http://www.twitter.com/AnaKasparian) discuss.
*Read more here from http://ipweb-lb-1885590254.us-east-1.elb.amazonaws.com/illinois-general-assembly-revives-recording-ban.html
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Filming Cops, Korean Air, Racist Cops & Religious Freedom Bill – The Young Turks 12/9/2014 Social Commentary
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Comments
Reasonable expectation of privacy surely doesn’t include anything that you’d expect that you’d be ask to testify about in open court.
Recording police making racist jokes maybe, but surely you’d expect that making an arrest is the sort of thing you’d expect you’d be asked to talk about during a trial.