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).

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