Supreme Court Blocks Illinois Law Against Recording Police

Posted by samzenpus on Monday November 26, 2012 @06:58AM from the start-your-cameras dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The Illinois anti-eavesdropping law was cut down slightly. While protecting the average citizen from eavesdropping, it also put in place prohibitions against recording the police as they were doing their jobs. An appeals court sided with the ACLU, saying that it was too great a restriction on First Amendment rights. Today, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear the appeal, cementing in place the lower court's ruling. In Illinois, you can now secretly record the police."

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Re:In Illinois? by Freddybear · 2012-11-26 07:09 · Score: 1, Redundant

They will still arrest you for, among other things, creating a disturbance, interfering with an officer, resisting arrest, mopery and dopery. ;)
And so you will still need a good lawyer.