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Police Fight Cellphone Recordings: Witness arrested, charged with illegal surveillanceBoston GlobeJan. 13, 2010 |
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 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. 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. READ FULL ARTICLE 
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