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John Szalay wrote:

"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

Well Hmmmmm, Just a NOTE here, as far as I know, there has NEVER been
a Federal Prosecution for a Violation of Section 705 of the
Communications Act of 1934, as Amended, for revealing content of a
Radio Communications Transmission. I am a reTired Resident Field Agent
for the Federal Communications Commission. There HAVE been prosecutions
under other Federal Statues, (ECPA of 1986) for revealing Communication
content. The BIGGIE, was the Florida Couple who overheard Newt Gingrich
and another Congresscritter's Cellphone conversation, recorded it, and
gave it to Rep. Jim McDermett (D) of Washington State, who then LEAKED
it to the Press. The Florida Couple WERE convicted, McDermett WAS
Prosecuted, and his case Went to SCOTUS, who REFUSED to hear his APPEAL,
which left him with a GIANT BlackEye, and a Hefty Judgement to pay the
Congresscritter for violation of his Privacy.