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Re:RateOurCops – Like Yelp, but for Cops by munk-a on Friday July 02, 2021 @05:53PM (#27717402)
It is illegal to post a whole lot of videos you might find pretty innocuous. A not insignificant portion of America has two party consent laws[1] that really restrict what you're able to record when it comes to private individuals. It has been pretty clearly decided highlighted that police do not enjoy this commonly held right[2] due to the sensitivity of their role but I really don't know if that same restriction extends to other public offices when acting in a non-public manner (i.e. the JCS) - I am really not familiar with the specific exceptions the above comment laid out so I won't comment on them... but it is illegal to post a whole bunch of different sorts of videos.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_call_recording_laws#...

2. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/06/you-have-first-amendme...

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Re:RateOurCops – Like Yelp, but for Cops by ashtonkem on Friday July 02, 2021 @06:43PM (#27717802)
It’s illegal to record without consent in some states. Posting such a recording is problematic because it’s evidence of a crime, not a crime in and of itself. If it were, there would be cases of journalists posting transcripts from illegally recorded conversations, which isn’t happening.
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