Cook Country Judge rules law banning recording police to be unconstitutional

[thewayne]

A man was arrested by police for selling art on the side of the road, and when it was discovered that he had a recording device, the arrest had a Class 1 felony attached to it for illegally recording the police.

The judge threw out the law as being over-broad, and that innocent infringers could be prosecuted. One example was a parent video recording a child's soccer game would pick up side conversations.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/03/illinois-judge-law-barring-recording-police-is-unconstitutional.ars

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/03/03/034244/cook-county-judge-says-law-banning-recording-police-is-unconstitutional

Comments

[silveradept]

Well, overbroad still gets the right effect. Too bad it's not really the right reason, and that a retuned law of that nature could still be used against people.