Civil Rights-Video Recording-Probation Officer-Vermont
So I live in VT and was placed on probation. One time I was given a violation of probation and my PO kept asking how I was going to plead to it every time I was in his office. I got uncomfortable at one point and told him that was my business, not his, and he yelled at me. I then started trying to come in and let him know I would be video recording. Since then a higher-up told me I couldn't do that like he did, then changed it to say "you can do that, but you have to give us a copy of it."
The following week I forgot my USB cord to transfer the file, which I still felt they had no right to demand, so I just decided to wait until the following week. That week I let him know I had the cable and was going to record, but hadn't turned on the camera yet. He told me to take a left so he could give me a UA. I hadn't been arrested yet, nor told I was arrested or being detained. As I took the left he grabbed my camera and handed it to another FSU officer. Said to him, "make sure that's off. Make sure that's off."
I'm getting really scared and don't know what to do. I want to keep recording him as he seems really out of control. There is even a seriously menacing looking twitch in his eye every time he seems angry I'm not doing as he pleases even in legal matters that are not his to mettle with or ask about.
Last time I went into his office (after over 2 weeks of having me sign report in forms instead of see him) he told me that he "called up north and they told me to have a local meetin' about it. So we had a local meetin' and they decided they don't want ya doin that anymore. With the video camera."
If video recording my interaction has nothing to do with my charges and no court has imposed anything against it, nothing is in my probation conditions that I've signed in regards to it, can he constitutionally keep me from recording what happens in my day as long as I've let him know I'm recording?
Thank you any and all who can shed light!