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Film The Police Everywhere – Including Illinois

November 13, 2013January 6, 2014 Pete Eyre 1386 Views ACLU, Anita Alvarez, Censorship, chicago, chicago police department, chris drew, copblock, eavesdropping, film the police, first amendment, garret ean, Illinois, michael allison, patour2013, Pete Eyre, police accountability tour, tiawanda moore, video, wiretapping

Despite claims by Anita Alvarez, the Cook County state attorney, who tried to maintain that the First Amendment doesn’t protect

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

May 15, 2012May 13, 2012 Pete Eyre 1027 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 578 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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Michael Allison

February 2, 2012May 9, 2013 Pete Eyre 1006 Views cop block, expectation of privacy, Featured, michael allison, public officials, strike the root, wiretapping

[This post will serve as the meta-post for all Michael Allison-related content. We welcome submissions to help keep this

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Radley Balko Reports: DA Considers Appeal on Judge’s Ruling about Michael Allison

September 28, 2011January 1, 2014 Ademo Freeman 583 Views Accountability, constitution, copblock.org, Filming police, illinois wiretapping, michael allison, Radley Balko

I missed this last week: The judge who dismissed Michael Allison’s case last week won’t have the final word. An

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Strict eavesdropping law ruled unconstitutional in Illinois case

September 17, 2011January 1, 2014 Ademo Freeman 667 Views chicago, copblock, copblock.org, eavesdropping statue, Filming police, Illinois, michael allison

by Kirsten Berg An Illinois judge ruled the state’s eavesdropping law unconstitutional as applied to a man who faced up

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Police Accountability Report – Episode 38 – Michael Allison

September 4, 2011September 5, 2011 CopBlock 815 Views eavesdropping, Featured, felony, felony wiretapping, Illinois, michael allison, Prison

Early last month, Cop Block covered the horrible charges that Michael Allison is facing (read the in depth coverage here),

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75 Years for Recording Public Officials On Duty!?

August 3, 2011May 9, 2013 Pete Eyre 1762 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 627 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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