Patricia Jessamy
Posted on 09/18/2009 7:21:41 AM PDT by jeffq73
Former ACORN workers in the city are planning to file a civil complaint against the makers of the video, according to the website Investigative Voice.City state's attorney Patricia Jessamy said on WBAL's Shari Elicker Show that she could not prosecute based on restrictions for evidence obtained illegally.
Maryland law requires two party consent to be recorded.
Former employees of the beleaguered community activist group ACORN are planning to file a criiminal complaint in Baltimore against the creators of the series of videos that have spurred outrage against the organization, knowledgable sources have told Investigative Voice.The filing could come as soon as Friday afternoon, sources said.
The criminal complaint will allege that recordings of the group’s employees giving advice on how to evade taxes and house underage South American sex workers to journalists posing as a pimp and prostitute were obtained illegally.
The criminal complaint is expected to name both James O’Keefe, 25, and Hannah Giles, 20, along with the owner of the website Breitbart, which initially released the videos.
ACORN is also contemplating a civil suit seeking an injunction aginst O'Keefe and Giles to prevent them from distributing the videos, according to an an email.
Fired workers are filing the criminal complaint.
ACORN is suing in civil court to stop distribution of the video.
I like what Rush calls them...the state run media. I guess that would be SRM.
PING!!
Hopefully after 2010 and 2012, the rats will be out of power. If the mediots are still around they will still be Progressively Liberal Mediots.
I don’t care for state run, but anything beats MSM. They are no longer mainstream.
The Radke person, perhaps, but I think you are overestimating their intelligence. And you can’t shred bank records.
Totally off topic, but seeing you're in Canada.....GO HABS!!
I know that BOR interviewed Bertha Lewis at one point. She brought an elderly blind minister with her for no apparent reason than to act as a human shield against O’Reilly.
Why do we need Glenn to ask? We can research and ask ourselves.
Here’s a great place to start:
http://www.rcfp.org/handbook/c03p01.html
Its the audio component that is illegal. Video cameras are illegal (with no consent) in areas like dressing rooms, bathrooms, showers, etc
I am going by Florida law, which is two party consent. States w two party consent laws pretty much have the same law
Yeah, this is what I was talking about. He even had the body language lady analyze it later on.
Recording laws (two party consent) just cover audio. The video portion of the Baltimore ACORN tapes are legal
I hear all the time cases on the news of some guy filming ladies in the store changing rooms, they never get charged cause they’re breaking no law, which maddens me, yet these reporters broke the law?
Didn’t the democrats pass whistleblower protection legislation a couple years ago in order to encourage people to squeel on Bush/Cheney? Surely Obama will pardon the current whistleblowers because they uncovered fraud and abuse.
I suspect that there are some whistleblower statutes that apply here. Especially since ACORN is being defunded.
If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed, if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed. -- Mark Twain
LOL! That would make a great tagline.
My question would be these workers weren’t fired by the videographers — but fired by Acorn — shouldn’t their suit be against the one who harmed them — Acorn?
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