{"id":4713,"date":"2010-09-28T11:21:03","date_gmt":"2010-09-28T11:19:24","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-28T11:19:24","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=4713","title":{"rendered":"News: A cop has no REP on the street"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Maryland police officer charged defendant with a state wiretapping charge for videotaping his own traffic stop with a helmet-cam and putting it on YouTube. Maryland is a two-party consent state. The trial judge held that a police officer has no reasonable expectation of privacy when arresting somebody. Baltimore Sun: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/news\/opinion\/bs-md-recorded-traffic-stop-20100927,0,4738246.story\">Judge says man within rights to record police traffic stop<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In a decision that could make it easier for citizens to record police officers in Maryland, a Harford County judge ruled Monday that state police and prosecutors were wrong to arrest and charge a man for taping his own traffic stop and posting it on the Internet.<\/p>\n<p>Circuit Court Judge Emory A. Plitt Jr.&#8217;s ruling helps clarify the state&#8217;s wire tap law and makes it clear that police officers enjoy little expectation of privacy as they perform their duties.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=4713\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"pingsdone","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4713\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}