Police Fight Cellphone Recordings: Witness arrested, charged with illegal surveillance

Daniel Rowinski
Boston Globe
January 12, 2010

Simon Glik, a lawyer, was walking down Tremont Street in Boston when he saw three police officers struggling to extract a plastic bag from a teenager’s mouth. Thinking their force seemed excessive for a drug arrest, Glik pulled out his cellphone and began recording.

[efoods]Within minutes, Glik said, he was in handcuffs.

“One of the officers asked me whether my phone had audio recording capabilities,” Glik, 33, said recently of the incident, which took place in October 2007. Glik acknowledged that it did, and then, he said, “my phone was seized, and I was arrested.”

The charge? Illegal electronic surveillance.

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This article was posted: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 at 3:05 pm

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