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Committee considers narrow carve-out to let trained fair-housing testers record conversations
Summary
Senate Bill 180 would create a limited exception to Maryland's two-party consent recording rule to allow trained fair-housing testers to make recordings used only for enforcing fair-housing laws; proponents say recordings are the best evidence, opponents warn about privacy erosion and weak evidence handling standards.
Senate Bill 180 returned to the Judicial Proceedings Committee with sponsors saying the measure creates a strictly limited exception to the state's two-party consent rule for trained fair-housing testers who are gathering evidence of housing discrimination.
"This would allow you to actually put the recording in front of the judge so the judge could hear what was said," Jonathan Smith of the Attorney General's civil rights division…
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