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  1. Re:A Fair Word of Warning by JSBiff · · Score: 1 · on NH Man Arrested For Videotaping Police.. Again

    No, because the courts will throw these cases out, and in some cases, prosecutors with a lick of sense will drop the charges.

  2. ACLU defending cases by Animats · · Score: 5, Informative · on Police Officers Seek Right Not To Be Recorded

    The ACLU has taken at least two cases in that area.

    The Maryland motorcycle case: "This prosecution by the Maryland State Police and Harford County State's Attorney is profoundly dangerous, and seems meant to intimidate people from making a record of what public officials do," said David Rocah, Staff Attorney at the ACLU of Maryland. "It is hard to imagine anything more antithetical to a democracy than for the government to tell its citizens that they do not have the right to record what government officials say or do or how they behave."

    The video is on YouTube.

  3. Because slashdot will appreciate this by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Maryland Police Put Activists' Names On Terror List

    Incidentally, we here at Red Emma's Bookstore Coffeehouse in Baltimore used some free software to help kick off the latest salvo in the Maryland ACLU's battle to reveal the full extent of the MD State Police's activist surveillance program.

    We used mairix, the excellent command line email search tool, to turn up some correspondence that basically caught the State Police in a lie - we found some messages from one of the undercover agents involved that predated what the MSP was claiming was the temporal extent of their operation, and pointed towards a broader police fishing expedition the details of which should be revealed as soon as (if?) the MSP and other agencies comply with the information requests the ACLU has filed.

    It's really satisfying to use free software to fight for civil liberties!

  4. Because slashdot will appreciate this by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Maryland Police Put Activists' Names On Terror List

    Incidentally, we here at Red Emma's Bookstore Coffeehouse in Baltimore used some free software to help kick off the latest salvo in the Maryland ACLU's battle to reveal the full extent of the MD State Police's activist surveillance program.

    We used mairix, the excellent command line email search tool, to turn up some correspondence that basically caught the State Police in a lie - we found some messages from one of the undercover agents involved that predated what the MSP was claiming was the temporal extent of their operation, and pointed towards a broader police fishing expedition the details of which should be revealed as soon as (if?) the MSP and other agencies comply with the information requests the ACLU has filed.

    It's really satisfying to use free software to fight for civil liberties!