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Scanners illegal in Kansas?
On Sun, 23 Mar 2008 17:39:35 GMT, You
wrote: In article , John Szalay wrote: "J" wrote in : 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. The only prosecutions I have ever known of on the state level have been when someone has used a police scanner to interfere with an investigation or with emergency personnel, such as the time some idiot hereabouts would race EMS to accident scenes. If anything, I think the story is one of piling on, charging someone with every conceiveable violation in an attempt to intimidate a troublesome individual or to guarantee a conviction on *something* in order to justify some otherwise shaky police work. ~db~® |
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