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Do police officers have an expected right to privacy?
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Graber's case has become a national cause among libertarians. The Maryland National Guard sergeant admits he was speeding in April down Interstate 95 on his Honda CBR 1000RR. A man in a grey sweater jumped from his car in a traffic stop and pulled a gun on Graber, ordering him off the motorcycle. He then identified himself as a Maryland State Police trooper Joseph Uhler.
Graber was recording the stop with a camera mounted on his helmet. After posting the videos on YouTube, police raided the home Graber shared with his parents, taking four computers and eventually arresting him on a charge of violating Maryland's wiretapping law for recording the trooper's voice without his consent. The maximum sentence is 16 years in prison.
"The officer having his gun drawn or being on a public roadway has nothing to do with it," Cassilly says. "Neither does the fact that what Mr. Graber said during the stop could be used in court. That's not the test. The test is whether police officers can expect some of the conversations they have while on the job to remain private and not be recorded and replayed for the world to hear."
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If the police are allowed to have their own cameras rolling could you? As a public servant do they have any reasonable right to privacy as they are doing their jobs?
I don't trust all police officers, so yes I do think I could and should have my own cameras recording. Different angles and different points of view are part of movie production providing different information and structure to the construct of the scene. I find it no different than multiple witnesses with an exact memory of what transpired.
I also do not think that police officers have any reasonable right to privacy WHILE they are doing their jobs. As public servants they are public when they are doing their jobs.
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