What section of the Disorderly Conduct statute did you violate?
Here it is:
KRS 525.055 Disorderly conduct in the first degree.
(1) A person is guilty of disorderly conduct in the first degree when he or she:
(a) In a public place and with intent to cause public inconvenience, annoyance, or alarm, or wantonly creating a risk thereof:
1. Engages in fighting or in violent, tumultuous, or threatening behavior;
2. Makes unreasonable noise; or
3. Creates a hazardous or physically offensive condition by any act that serves no legitimate purpose; and
(b) Acts in a way described in paragraph (a) of this subsection within three hundred (300) feet of a:
1. Cemetery during a funeral or burial;
2. Funeral home during the viewing of a deceased person;
3. Funeral procession;
4. Funeral or memorial service; or
5. Building in which a funeral or memorial service is being conducted; and
(c) Acts in a way described in paragraph (a) of this subsection at any point in time between one (1) hour prior to the commencement of an event specified in paragraph (b) of this subsection and one (1) hour following its conclusion; and
(d) Knows that he or she is within three hundred (300) feet of an occasion described in paragraph (b) of this subsection.
(2) Disorderly conduct in the first degree is a Class A misdemeanor.
KRS 525.060 Disorderly conduct in the second degree.
(1) A person is guilty of disorderly conduct in the second degree when in a public place and with intent to cause public inconvenience, annoyance, or alarm, or wantonly creating a risk thereof, he:
(a) Engages in fighting or in violent, tumultuous, or threatening behavior;
(b) Makes unreasonable noise;
(c) Refuses to obey an official order to disperse issued to maintain public safety in dangerous proximity to a fire, hazard, or other emergency; or
(d) Creates a hazardous or physically offensive condition by any act that serves no legitimate purpose.
(2) Disorderly conduct in the second degree is a Class B misdemeanor.
This is a good example of why we all need to carry and use a recorder when we carry.
Allow me to properly join the discussion by applauding you for your efforts. As gutshot stated, you broke no law and recorders are a must for this short of thing, especially the kind that they don't know you have. This is a one party consent state so you do not have to inform a person you are recording them as long as you are a party to that conversation.
There is actually this wristwatch that I'm considering purchasing that looks like a nice wristwatch, works too. But press one button and it records a few hours of audio, no way to playback or erase it on the watch, it has to be attached to a pc for those functions. Kinda pricey though, but the price was FAR less that what one could incur over false charges.
Maybe you should have reminded him that malfeasance is a crime?
61.170 Malfeasance or neglect of county officers -- Penalty.
(1) County judges/executive, justices of the peace, sheriffs, coroners, surveyors, jailers,
county attorneys, and constables may be indicted in the county in which they reside
for
misfeasance or malfeasance in office, or willful neglect in the discharge of
official duties, and if convicted they shall be fined not less than one hundred ($100)
nor more than one thousand dollars ($1,000),
and the judgment of conviction shall
declare the office held by such person vacant.
(2) Any sheriff, deputy sheriff, policeman, or other peace officer who fails to enforce
any provision of KRS Chapter 242 after receiving information of a violation
thereof, or having knowledge of a violation thereof and failing to act thereon, may
be indicted for nonfeasance or malfeasance in office, and if convicted shall be fined
not less than fifty ($50) nor more than two hundred dollars ($200), and the
judgment of conviction shall declare the office held by such person vacant.
(3) In the absence of good cause shown, a member of the fiscal court who fails to attend
fifty percent (50%) of the regular terms of the fiscal court within a six (6) month
period or who fails to attend two (2) consecutive terms of the fiscal court shall be
charged with neglect of office and upon conviction shall forfeit his office.
Effective: July 15, 1998
History: Amended 1998 Ky. Acts ch. 121, sec. 32, effective July 15, 1998. -- Amended
1988 Ky. Acts ch. 328, sec. 2, effective July 15, 1988. -- Recodified 1942 Ky. Acts
ch. 208, sec. 1, effective October 1, 1942, from Ky. Stat. secs. 2554c-31, 3748.