Posted on 09/03/2016 6:06:52 AM PDT by Olog-hai
The California Legislature passed a controversial bill Wednesday which creates a new crime by criminalizing the distribution of secret recordings of confidential communication with a health care provider.
The bill defines confidential communication as “any communication carried on in circumstances that reasonably indicate that any party to the communication desires it to be confined to the parties thereto.”
It is already illegal in California to make recordings without the consent of all parties.
The bill was strongly advocated by Planned Parenthood following a series of undercover videos released last summer by the Center for Medical Progress, which claimed that the organization was unlawfully trafficking in fetal tissue. …
(Excerpt) Read more at cnsnews.com ...
Stop telling the truth about progressives!
“You want the truth? You want the truth? You can’t handle the truth”.
Fundamentally changing America!”
Murdering babies in cold blood is ‘health care?’
$$$$$$$$$$$
This will be fun to watch. SHTF going viral with the first video. Ought to hold a contest.
How is this ‘health care’?
Are these the future ‘doctors’ which ObamaCARE/RomneyCARE
have chosen for all but our Leaders (EXEMPT, they are)?
Where is the 1st Amendment?
or morality?
or protection of the whistleblower?
How can one extradite a video from Ukraine?
The act indicates panic over what is to come before election day
“We had to do something”
From the article :
The bill met with some unlikely opponents, including the LA Times Editorial Board and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), who raised concerns about the legislation’s potential impact on whistleblowers.
“We know of no legitimate governmental reason for singling-out disclosure of all health care provider communications for special criminal sanctions, making the bill vulnerable not only on first amendment grounds but also on equal protection grounds,” the ACLU noted in their opposition to the bill.
“The same rationale for punishing communications of some preferred professions/industries could as easily be applied to other communications – e.g., by law enforcement, animal testing labs, gun makers, lethal injection drug producers, the petroleum industry, religious sects,” it said.
The LA Times Editorial Board also expressed their opposition to the measure Wednesday.
“Make no mistake,” they wrote, “this measure would heap more criminal and civil penalties on making a secret recording — an act that’s already prohibited by state law, even when done in the public interest — simply to satisfy an interest group popular among Sacramento Democrats.
“In fact, it would further disincentivize potential whistleblowers from recording malfeasance when they witness it — for example, a patient who sees her doctor handing out opioid prescriptions like candy, or a farm worker who catches a veterinarian approving a sick cow for the slaughterhouse,” they add. “The potential for unanticipated and unwelcome consequences is huge.”
So if a Doctor or Nurse, or even a Physical Therapist, Trainer,... is Pulled over and Arrested for say Drunk Driving, and the DA uses the DashCam Video at Trial for ANY REASON, The DA, COP,And the JUDGE COMMITTED A FELONY??
Did I get that right? Sounds like a GET OUT OF JAIL FREE CARD to Me.
I would also add that If a Health Care Provider walks in to ANY ESTABLISHMENT that utilizes VIDEO or AUDIO RECORDING, they have a RIGHT TO DEMAND IT BE TURNED OFF or they Can FILE FELONY CHARGES against the Company, Government Or Individual???
Did I get that right??
When it comes to programs and issues that Liberals support, they will do anything, including endangering life, to hide the facts.
California is a State that Protects its Criminals and offers up it honorable citizens for sacrifice and game.
The corruption continues to grow.
Just about time for another Tea Party and Shot Heard Round The World.
We are video recording this transaction “for your safety”. I’ve always liked that little bit of Newspeak.
What’s new in communists controlled California. This State is perhaps the worst State in the Union and is nothing more than little Mexico. Brown is the same crap hole he was the first time elected. The entire legislature is equally crap.
Trump for President.
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