NCCobra
Regular Member
What is the law when recording leo's? Like if I get stopped while OC'ing do I have to inform him or her that I am audio and or video recording?
What is the law when recording leo's? Like if I get stopped while OC'ing do I have to inform him or her that I am audio and or video recording?
Yes you can record an encounter with a leo. I carry a small recorder on my person.
I have OC and CC for 10+ years.
Lannie
Lannie, this is Andrew from the Triangle Carry Open Cary group on Meetup.
Do you ever let the leo know you are recording or no?
Lannie, this is Andrew from the Triangle Carry Open Cary group on Meetup.
Do you ever let the leo know you are recording or no?
I thought there was a app that records to the internet for mobile devices.I never mention it or let the cop see it.* A quick google search shows too many confiscated digital recording devices confiscated and returned blank.
It is important to understand that if you are recording a bad encounter with a cop, you really, really want to not escalate things into an arrest. If arrested, you will be very thoroughly searched. Google "search incident", meaning a search incident to arrest. Your recording will definitely be found, and likely erased, if the recorder doesn't disappear altogether. Also, you don't want to mention the recording or threaten legal process against the cop during a bad cop encounter. Meaning, you don't want to back him into a corner where now he has to arrest you to obtain the recording and invent a charge to justify the arrest in order to protect himself.
*Besides avoiding confiscation, my state is a one-party consent state so I am not required to disclose the recording.
I thought there was a app that records to the internet for mobile devices.
There are a couple good Android apps...Cop Recorder and Police Tape (by the ACLU). if you can see a need, start one and then lock the screen. Just make sure that you have the swipe security turned on and the usb connection turned off and the phone is relatively secure. I believe that either will allow automatic uploads to the internet periodically.
i have heard... your fone's screen should be locked at all times so you have to put in either a code or a pattern to use it. again, i have heard this precludes the authorities from accessing your device (so the authorities can protect evidence is the term i have heard) w/o a court order.
say you were texting and have an accident and are taken to the hospital or away from your fone, the police could look at your fone texting activities and could cite you as at least a contributor to the accident.
yes, yes, i know police need RAS but in their effort to protect evidence etc., better safe than sorry so keep your fone inaccessible from prying eyes.
wabbit
PS: again, I have heard those fone recorder apps that record to the internet are free access to anybody who has a 'membership' to the site possibly including the media and the authorities. thanks i pass having everyone access my recording before i have it reviewed by my attorney.
pps: didn't you folk watch Sesame Street and learn how to spell words pho·neti·cal·ly...geez guess ya'll had very limited educational opportunities, huh!!
If the cops learn of your "recording" device there is no need to erase anything if damaging the device will suffice to preclude the reconstruction or transferring of the recorded data. Uploading in real time is a necessity. Any monetary cost is the price we must pay to exercise our right(s).