Record police with phone camera in Boston, get arrested

Re:Record police with phone camera in Boston, get arrested by credo on Tuesday January 12, 2010 @01:15PM (#1048097)

Here is a list of the 12 states that require 2-party consent for recording phone conversations

from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_recording_laws#United... California Connecticut Florida Illinois Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Montana Nevada New Hampshire Pennsylvania Washington

11 blue states and 1 red state

The Boston cases clearly seem like police abuse of wiretapping laws which were originally intended to protect citizens talking on the phone (not hide evidence of physical violence against them)

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Re:Record police with phone camera in Boston, get arrested by timwiseman on Tuesday January 12, 2010 @01:27PM (#1048124)

Thanks for the list.

I am curious, granted the source is Wikipedia, but the article says that those states require notification, not consent. Even if these laws did apply to this kind of in-person interaction, instead of just the phone conversations they were intended for, would it be valid to argue that clearly and openly beginning the recording is notification?

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