This issue has been covered on PogoWasRight.org in the past, but nothing has yet changed. WJZ reports:
Several Marylanders face felony charges for recording their arrests on camera, and others have been intimidated to shut their cameras off. That’s touched off a legal controversy.
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Video of another arrest at the Preakness quickly made its way online, despite an officer issuing this warning to the person who shot it, “Do me a favor and turn that off. It’s illegal to videotape anybody’s voice or anything else, against the law in the state of Maryland.”
But is he right? Can police stop you from recording their actions, like a beating at the University of Maryland College Park?
The American Civil Liberties Union says no.
Read more on WJZ.
Via Rick Forno.