In 38 States it is legal to record an in -person conversation as long as one of the participants in the conversation consents to it. HB 410 (Schlegel) would make Louisiana an outlier in requiring both parties to a conversation to consent to recording. This bill will seriously endanger the ability of investigative and citizen journalists to document evidence of public corruption. These recordings are often the only tool citizens with limited resources have to document, by their own words, the wrongdoing, corruption, or dishonesty of very powerful public officials. Either this bill must fail or it must be AMENDED to include a very clear exception for good faith recordings whose intent is to expose public corruption. If a public official or powerful figure is required to give his consent before being recorded, the ability to prove wrongdoing on the part of public officials would be destroyed. Our society will become much less transparent, and our citizens much less powerful.