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Surreptitious audio recording is a felony in Massachusetts (and possibly other states).


There's some precedent that recording police officers isn't in the scope of that Massachusetts law: http://www.dmlp.org/blog/2011/victory-recording-public

Though it certainly might land you in jail anyway. There's any number of trumped up reasons to haul an uncooperative person off.




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