Last week, in a private “prescreening” at Columbia College, artist and photographer Nancy Bechtol debuted her first-ever documentary film: Free Speech & the Transcendent Journey of Chris Drew, Street Artist.
To try to change that, Drew put himself on the sidewalk, distributing patches of wearable art for free (to avoid breaking the law about selling it) and explaining his cause to anyone who paused to see what this scruffy, bespectacled, pony-tailed character in the knit cap was about.
But this year, just two weeks before Bechtol’s screening, the Illinois Supreme Court, ruling on two other suits, declared the eavesdropping law unconstitutional. Kutnick says the only audio-taping restriction that now stands in Illinois is a federal law that requires the permission of at least one person taking part in the conversation—and that person can be the one whose finger is on the record button.
