{"id":841,"date":"2010-08-01T16:10:56","date_gmt":"2010-08-01T21:10:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/?p=841"},"modified":"2010-08-01T16:10:59","modified_gmt":"2010-08-01T21:10:59","slug":"freedom-to-record-for-the-state-but-not-for-citizens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/2010\/08\/freedom-to-record-for-the-state-but-not-for-citizens\/","title":{"rendered":"Freedom to record for the state, but not for citizens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.boingboing.net\/~r\/boingboing\/iBag\/~3\/8kNFIHyKN-A\/man-faces-jail-for-v.html\">Man faces jail for videotaping gun-waving cop<\/a>:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"copwithgun.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/images\/copwithgun.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"551\" style=\"text-align:center;display:block;margin:0 auto 20px;border:1px solid black\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Police officer Joseph Uhler was caught on film charging out of his unmarked car and waving his gun at a unarmed motorcyclist pulled over for speeding. When the footage was uploaded to YouTube, authorities raided Anthony Graber&#8217;s home, siezed his computers, arrested him, and charged him with &#8220;wiretapping&#8221; offenses that could land him in jail for 16 years. <a href=\"http:\/\/dynamic.boingboing.net\/cgi-bin\/mt\/mt-cp.cgi?__mode=view&amp;blog_id=6&amp;id=89981\">Glyn<\/a> writes in:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The ACLU of Maryland is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aclu-md.org\/aPress\/Press2010\/Graber_Factsheet.pdf\">defending Anthony Graber<\/a>, who potentially faces 16 years in prison if found guilty of violating state wiretap laws because he recorded video of an officer drawing a gun during a traffic stop. The ACLU attorney handling the case says, &#8220;To charge Graber with violating the law, you would have to conclude that a police officer on a public road, wearing a badge and a uniform, performing his official duty, pulling someone over, somehow has a right to privacy when it comes to the conversation he has with the motorist.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Indeed, Maryland contends that Uhler had a reasonable expectation of privacy while waving his gun around in public and yelling at a motorist with a giant video camera mounted on the top of his helmet.<\/p>\n<p>Remarkably, the state Attorney General has already opined that when <em>police<\/em> record in public, that is <em>not<\/em> a private conversation subject to the same laws. In other words, in any public interaction between a police officer and a member of the public in Maryland, it is private for one of them but not the other.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have looked, and have not been able to find a single court anywhere in the country that has found an expectation of privacy for an officer in such circumstances,&#8221; writes the ACLU.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mclu.org\/node\/653\">Sixteen Years in Prison for Videotaping the Police?<\/a> [MCLU via <a href=\"javascript:void(0);\">Submitterator<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Man faces jail for videotaping gun-waving cop: Police officer Joseph Uhler was caught on film charging out of his unmarked car and waving his gun<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":647,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pekNN-dz","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/647"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=841"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":842,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841\/revisions\/842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}