I don’t think the school actually has a rule against recording. I do think that recording without two party permission is against California state law however. I looked at OCC’s student code of conduct that I found online and it did not have any such restriction. That doesn’t mean that what I saw was the complete document of course, however as other posters have stated here before, it has not been unusual for students to record lectures for decades. Maybe since I’ve been in college things have changed, and the increasing litigiousness of society has prompted a change in policy, but I doubt it.
From the article. It also spelled out his punishment. A semester long suspension, because he had broken campus rules against using recording devices.
I recall that rule was also discussed in an earlier article and thread about this case. And that is beyond ridiculous and can only be a rule to prevent students from having indisputable evidence of exactly what was said during lectures. Some of these academics want free speech with no accountability, or proof of what they said. That's my take on this situation.
If I were making the rules, audio recordings of lectures would be encouraged, but video recording prohibited because a class full of students pointing their phones all around could be disruptive and distracting for everyone in the class.
The statute requiring permission from all parties before a recording can be made applies only to statements made in private. A teacher’s statements to a college class is not private in the sense that say, a conversation between a husband and wife alone at home is usually considered private and protected against such recording.