Gilford Schools Recording Audio on Buses Without Notice, aka “Wiretapping”

In a video captured by a student in Gilford, a school bus driver admits to a student that the camera on the bus is recording audio.  By definition, this is “wiretapping”, according to a ridiculous, draconian NH statute that most other states do not have.  In most places, you can record a conversation so long as one person knows it’s being recorded.  In New Hampshire, the supposed “live free or die” state, every party to the recording must be aware, and depending on your interpretation, consent.  What the school board in Gilford is doing is not legal, but it should be – for everyone.  The wiretapping statute only protects bad bureaucrats and business people from accountability and needs to be heavily gutted or repealed entirely.

Here’s the brief student video where they announce they are recording and then the driver admits the permanently mounted camera at the front of the bus has been recording audio.  Will the Gilford school superintendent be arrested?  Don’t hold your breath.  They save their “wiretapping” arrests for activists like Ademo Freeman of Cop Block.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsKNdRYSk_M

Thanks to Josh Youssef for hosting the video.