Did Rahm Violate Illinois Wiretapping Laws by Recording Journalists?

CAROL MARIN
Chicago Sun-Times
November 15, 2012

Mayor Rahm Emanuel, at a Monday news conference, didn’t like questions about whether his press office had recorded reporters’ conversations without first seeking their consent.

That’s a big no-no under the Illinois Eavesdropping Act, one of the toughest two-party consent laws in the country.

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The controversy has its origins in Monday’s Tribune story that two of its reporters were recorded without their knowledge by the Emanuel press office as they did phone interviews with city officials, including Police Supt. Garry McCarthy.

Emanuel, at his press conferences, hates it when reporters have the temerity to go off-message on him.

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This article was posted: Thursday, November 15, 2012 at 1:32 pm

Tags: big brother, domestic spying, government corruption

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