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The judge in Crawford County, Illinois who heard this case ruled that the Illinois Eavesdropping Law was Unconstitutional. That decision was handed down November 9th. The DA in Crawford County has evidently filed an appeal on that ruling.
I really hate this law. I think that it's just a way to give the police more of a chance to harass you. If I remember correctly, the reasoning for this law was because the police were getting caught on video too often doing bad things and they didn't want them on video anymore.
Illinois has a terrible law. Rather then trying to decrease examples of police breaking the law or decrease police brutality they have made it illegal for someone to collect evidence that police have broken the law. That's a retarded thing to do and the supreme court needs to strike down this clearly unconstitutional law.
Do you know when you make a call on your cellphone the government can record you if they want.
That is because the "expectation" of a cell phone user is that they are using public airspace.
Seems there's a set of laws for the government and another more restrictive laws for us mere peons.
So police doing their duty publicly have an "expectation of privacy" ?
Feds push for tracking cell phones | Politics and Law - CNET News
"..Americans enjoy no "reasonable expectation of privacy" in their--or at least their cell phones'--whereabouts. U.S. Department of Justice lawyers say that "a customer's Fourth Amendment rights are not violated when the phone company reveals to the government its own records" that show where a mobile device placed and received calls."
The ACORN footage was not obtained outdoors. The law cited isn't about video footage but audio. Some states allow you to record as long as you notify the party. Perhaps this is why the cops can get away with it, and then you have the patriot act which bascially allows the government to violate your privacy at will.
The video tapes in question was taken IN THE PUBLIC.
The government hates transparency.
I seem to remember a certain Illinois senator who was going to change that.
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