{"id":7984,"date":"2012-11-19T16:52:44","date_gmt":"2012-11-19T16:52:44","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-11-19T16:52:44","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=7984","title":{"rendered":"Citizen Media Law Center: &#8220;Another Go-Round with Recording the Police in Massachusetts&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Citizen Media Law Center: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.citmedialaw.org\/blog\/2012\/another-go-round-recording-police-massachusetts\">Another Go-Round with Recording the Police in Massachusetts<\/a> by Jeffrey P. Hermes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Last Thursday, according to the Shrewsbury Daily Voice, Irving Espinosa-Rodrigue was arraigned in Westborough District Court for making a recording of a police officer in violation of Massachusetts&#8217; wiretap law, M.G.L. c. 272, \u00a7 99. The audio\/video recording was allegedly made secretly during a traffic stop by a female passenger in Espinosa-Rodrigue&#8217;s car at his direction, and later uploaded to YouTube.<\/p>\n<p>But wait a minute &#8212; didn&#8217;t we already deal with this issue in Massachusetts? Didn&#8217;t the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, the federal appeals court with jurisdiction over Massachusetts, pretty clearly state in Glik v. Cunniffe, 655 F.3d 78 (1st Cir. 2011), that there&#8217;s a First Amendment right to record the activities of the police in public? <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=7984\">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-7984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7984","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=7984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7984\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}