Title: Authorizes Individuals to Record Law Enforcement Officers
Vote Smart's Synopsis:
Vote to pass a bill that authorizes an individual to record law enforcement officers in public places.
Highlights:
Authorizes an individual who is neither a law enforcement officer nor acting at the direction of a law enforcement officer to record the conversation of a law enforcement officer performing a public duty in a public place if the conversation is at a volume “audible to the unassisted ear” of the individual making the recording (Sec. 15).
Defines “public place” as any place to which the public has access, including, but not limited to the following (Sec. 15):
Streets;
Parks;
Highways;
Inside motor vehicles; or
Common areas of public and private facilities and buildings.
Specifies that a complainant will be prosecuted by the appropriate State Attorney if he or she submits an intentionally altered recording as evidence of misconduct against a law enforcement officer that inaccurately reflects the incident at issue (Secs. 5 & 10).