Sunday, July 3, 2016

Don't "strip some people of the law’s protection based on their employment” “This is a dangerous and un-American line of thought.”

ACLU sues to allow secret recording of police officers
Harvey Silverglate, an attorney who specializes in civil liberties, said he thinks — and hopes — the suit is successful. He thinks there should be a public policy exception under the First Amendment to the state’s wiretap law.
“I understand why the police don’t like it for precisely the reason I do like it,” he said. “It advances truth. It redresses the imbalance in the credibility of the ordinary citizen versus the police officer, especially in the court of law.”

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