The Illinois House voted yesterday to allow civilians to make audio recordings of police officers exercising their public duties in public places.
Senate Bill 1808 would create a new exemption in the Illinois eavesdropping statute, which now bans recording police officers without their consent.
In an effort to appease law enforcement opposition, the bill's sponsor added a provision that would make it a crime to edit the recording of a police officer if it was submitted as evidence of wrongdoing.
