Interesting development out of Wisconsin where two individuals were arrested for recording a closed session meeting of a county board. According to news reports, a city administrator and his sister were arrested after surveillance video showed that the city administrator’s sister had placed her phone against the door to a closed meeting of the county board in an attempt to intercept the discussions during the closed meeting. Authorities charged both with intercepting an oral communication during a closed session which, in Wisconsin, is a Class H felony subject to fines of $1,000 and up to six years of prison time. The city administrator was charged after authorities discovered communications between the two that took place on Facebook Messenger during and about the incident.
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