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Illinois Gets With the Times – Lifts Threat of Jail for Filming Police

May 15, 2012May 13, 2012 Pete Eyre 1051 Views 7th circuit court of appeals, ACLU, Ademo Freeman, Anthony Graber, chicago, chris drew, eavesdropping, Featured, felony wiretapping, Illinois, Maryland, massachussets, michael allison, nato, Pete Eyre, police accountability, Simon Glik, tiawanda moore, Transparency, War on Cameras

Last week a judge for the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago said that eavesdropping legislation, long used by

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Victims & Heroes: The Fight for Our Right to Record Police

March 12, 2012May 9, 2013 Pete Eyre 598 Views Ademo Freeman, Anthony Graber, antonio musumeci, Carlos Miller, chris drew, chris long, cooper travis, copblock.org, elija matheney, emily goode, Flex Your Rights, john heaney, michael allison, michael cordova, Oscar Grant, Pete Eyre, Police State, Simon Glik, strike the root, tasha ford, tiawanda moore, tyisha greene, voluntaryism, wiretapping

Our friends at Flex Your Rights made a timeline that depicted “A recent history of notable arrests and litigants whose

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75 Years for Recording Public Officials On Duty!?

August 3, 2011May 9, 2013 Pete Eyre 1907 Views Ademo Freeman, Anthony Graber, call food, crawford county attorney tom wiseman, eavesdropping, Featured, felony wiretapping, greenfield police department, Illinois, marc mccoy, Maryland, Massachusetts, max stirner, michael allison, Radley Balko, roger beckworth, tom wiseman, Transparency

UPDATE: March 2nd, 2012 Judge rules eavesdropping law unconstitutional “A Cook County judge today ruled the state’s controversial eavesdropping law

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MA’s Wiretapping Statute Targeted by Coalition of Free Speech Advocates

February 15, 2011February 11, 2012 Pete Eyre 664 Views Adam Mueller, Anthony Graber, cop block, greenfield massachusetts, michael allison, Pete Eyre, Radley Balko, Todd M. Dodge, wiretapping

Along with Illinois and Maryland, Massachusetts has the most draconian and outdated legislation targeting those who film “public servants”. Case

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Judge Throws Out Charges Against Anthony Graber

September 27, 2010April 14, 2011 Ademo Freeman 1035 Views Anthony Graber, Filming police, Harassment, Maryland

Anthony Graber who was driving his motorcycle down the highway at high speeds and doing tricks has had his ‘felony

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Cops on Camera

September 18, 2010September 19, 2010 CopBlock 441 Views Anthony Graber, Cato Institute, Filming police, Maryland, SWAT

At Cop Block, we’re big advocates of filming the police and this video from the Cato Institute provides one of the clearest explanations as to why.

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Filming police is not a crime: Time Magazine joins the chorus

August 6, 2010April 14, 2011 CopBlock 1112 Views ACLU, Anthony Graber, Filming police, NAACP, Photography, Rodney King

Time Magazine has become the latest in a string of mainstream media outlets to address the issue of police abusing

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MSNBC interviews Carlos Miller

July 23, 2010April 14, 2011 CopBlock 621 Views Anthony Graber, Carlos Miller, Filming police

Carlos Miller, author of the Photography is Not a Crime blog, was interviewed several days ago by MSNBC about Anthony

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USA Today: “When citizens film police, it shouldn’t be a crime”

July 15, 2010June 6, 2016 CopBlock 705 Views Anthony Graber, Brutality, Double Standard, Driving violations, Filming police

This post was submitted via our Submit Page USA Today recently published an editorial denouncing the abuse of wiretapping laws

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Cracked: “6 Completely Legal Ways The Cops Can Screw You”

July 13, 2010July 22, 2011 CopBlock 832 Views Alcohol, Anthony Graber, Civil asset forfeiture, Filming police, Humor

From Cracked.com We are so lucky to be living in an era of law when it’s no longer common for,

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Radley Balko: Maryland cops are abusing wiretapping law

June 21, 2010April 14, 2011 CopBlock 768 Views Anthony Graber, Corruption, Filming police, Maryland, Radley Balko

Below is an excerpt from a recent article by Radley Balko on how cops and public officials in Maryland are

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