Comments on: PA Man Faces Seven Years in Jail For Video Taping Police

By: Tobin Titus » Run-in with Beaver, PA Police Department

Tobin Titus » Run-in with Beaver, PA Police Department — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 04:21:16 +0000

[...] give up my rights, that I had none. Even if I wanted to record the police officers, apparently it IS illegal to do so in PA (seriously, they can record you, but you can’t record them). I witnessed a police officer change [...]

By: Run-in with Beaver, PA Police Department « Tobin Titus

Run-in with Beaver, PA Police Department « Tobin Titus — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 09:15:35 +0000

By: paul hamilton

paul hamilton — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 22:13:23 +0000

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September 24, 2009 at 6:12 pmthey can not arrest u for video or audio tapping them aclu already won case over these and our fighting another http://www.aclupa.org/pressroom/aclufilessuitonbehalfofpit.htm
copy and paste this link also http://www.aclupa.org/pressroom/acluofpaannouncessettlemen.htm copy and paste this one

By: Leonna

Leonna — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 08:20:06 +0000

I don’t believe anyone should be sentenced to prison or jail for videotaping anyone in uniform. When young law enforcement officers and guards abuse their authority and abuse another human being, they are no longer officers in my book. They are Punks. Insecure punks who feel they need to show off to their peers in order to fit in. TOO MANY people have died at the hands of these punks. So, yes video taping should be allowed.

By: Mark

Mark — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 15:26:04 +0000

This article made it to the on-line forum page of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on Sunday, July 8, 2007:

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07189/799822-109.stm

I can’t write a follow-up letter to the editor on this outrage because I’m on the PG’s 90 blackout list because with a letter of mine last month. I encourage people to write the PG regarding this story (letters@post-gazette.com, 250 words maximum, include a phone number for them to confirm intent to print).

A good rhetorical question might be to ask how the news media might react if one of their reporters or cameraman were arrested for recording an event involving a cop. It might even be better to ask a state representative if he thinks a reporter should have more rights than a private citizen.

By: Jeff Kennedy

Jeff Kennedy — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 16:01:50 +0000

This is a a right to privacy issue .The police are trying to say they can not be recorded carrying out there duty ,there public servants in a public place .Its been tried before and will like other cases be chucked out ,if it was’nt you would have tv crews getting arrested left right and center .Just hope the kid doesnt take a plee and end up with a record .POLICE HAVE NO RIGHT TO PRIVACY WHEN ON DUTY ,if they ever get it leave the country as fast as you can.

By: bg

bg — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 04:33:36 +0000

n oh yea its a felony third they wanna give him….MAXimum penalty is 7 years….who gets the maximum on the first offense