On May 8, 2012, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, which sits in Chicago, ruled that the 1st Amendment protects the right to record police engaged in their official duties in public. The Court found that the Illinois wiretapping statute could not be used as a basis to prosecute individuals for making recordings of the police that include audio, regardless of whether the police consent to the recording. The Court cited this firm’s case Glik v. Cunniffe as favorable precedent for the right to record.
Read more about these cases at the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press.