Video recording leads to felony charge - Breaking News with The Patriot-News: PennLive.com Quote:
Brian D. Kelly didn't think he was doing anything illegal when he used his videocamera to record a Carlisle police officer during a traffic stop. Making movies is one of his hobbies, he said, and the stop was just another interesting event to film.
Now he's worried about going to prison or being burdened with a criminal record.
Kelly, 18, of Carlisle, was arrested on a felony wiretapping charge, with a penalty of up to 7 years in state prison.
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So the charge is illegal wiretapping for having recorded SOUND without consent (in this case the police officers). It's implied that had he only been recording video and not sound, it would have been ok.
I guess when you're getting a traffic violation your rights as a citizen are null. As a public servant I'd think a police officer who's on public duty wouldn't have any say in what people recorded them doing. Police also seized the kids other tapes on him that weren't related. Couldn't the kid counter-sue for injust seizure of property?