"J" wrote in
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If you live in Kansas be careful about listening to a police scanner.

In Lansing, Kansas a state prison employee lost much of what he owned
because he listened to a Radio Shack police scanner.

According to a police report, Joe Howerd, a Communications Technician
at the Kansas State Penitentiary in Lansing ( Lansing Correctional
Facility LCF ) came to work one day and told his supervisor, Captain
Jeff Munsterman that he bought a police scanner from prison employee
Mike Bellar and while playing with it he picked up his next door
neighbor Roberta Copp talking on her cordless phone.



FWIW:::::
First, I am NOT a lawyer, but have used scanners for years, one thing I
have learned,
ITS illegal under federal Law to reveal to a third party, anything you
hear on a scanner OR any radio capabile of receiving certian
transmission types.. this includes public safety radio, IE:
Police,fire,EMS etc:

and its illegal to receive/listen to mobile telephone at all of any
type. other than your own . much less tell someone else what you hear..

So use your radios with caution and reveal to NO-ONE anything you have
heard at any time..

these laws go back to 1934 with the Communiations Act of 1934
and futher with the ECPA law of 1986

Learn the law and respect it...

Retired Firefighter.....


http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/18..._I_20_119.html