Walk It Through: The March And The Camera
A protest, a phone recording, an order to disperse, and a private lot.
At a downtown march, a marcher records a conversation with an organizer on a phone.
Two things a person in this spot might do. Picking one shows what the law says about it.
One march. City permits for streets, recording police in public, the civil suit for unlawful interception and a trespass that causes damage are not worked through here.
A practice walkthrough, not a prediction of how any real one will go. Legal information, not legal advice.
Words this turns on
Terms with a legal meaning that is narrower than the everyday one. Each links to the definition and the authority behind it.
- Prior consentAgreement by one of the parties to a communication, given before it is intercepted. It is lawful to intercept a wire, electronic or oral communication when one of the parties has given prior consent, and a party recording their own conversation is that party.
- Unlawful assemblyTwo or more people assembled to do an unlawful act, or doing a lawful act in a violent, boisterous or tumultuous manner. Taking part in one is a misdemeanor.
- Civil trespassEntering or remaining on another person's real property without permission. The trespasser owes the greater of $500 or actual damages, and treble damages where they had reason to know and caused more than $1,000 in damage.
- Orange paintBright orange or fluorescent paint at the corners of unfenced, uncultivated land and where roads, streams and gates enter it, which with conspicuous signs gives reason to know presence is not permitted.