Posted On: August 24, 2007, 4:58 pm CDT

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From what I understand in another article about this, the meetings were confessional meetings where people would go to confess sins. This is why the investigators went their, hoping to catch the insureds in a confession. They were taping these sessions. This is wrong because they would have also been recording other people's transgressions as well. These are things that people did not intend to have known outside of this meeting and it is irresponsible to covertly record events at meetings like this. There are also potential confidentiality issues as well.

Meetings like this need to be private without the trheat of recording devices in order for people to be open and honest with the group. Otherwise, support groups would cease to be effective.