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"Buzzygirl" wrote:
Not that this would dissuade the kind of cop who takes your carrying such documentation as a personal challenge to his authority. I would bring it up to a judge in traffic court and lodge a formal complaint with the PD, if it had to go that far. Hah. You don't remember the case of the kid who was an ARES worker a few years ago... had an RS HTX-202, which had no out-of-band capabilities at all, cop stopped him, kerchunked his radio and -- surprise! -- it desensed his police radio. Confiscation and charges ensued. It took a lot of work and time (years) to get it untangled, and it was a headline issue with ARRL for quite a while. The only good news to come out of it was that particular police department got publicised as the ****heads they were. I wonder if there's an active ARES chapter left there... ....search engines are wonderful. Here's a more accurate summary of the endgame: Charges dismissed in Godsey case: It took more than two years, but all charges against a Kentucky ham for impersonating a public servant and disorderly conduct finally were dropped in December. Greg Godsey, KF4BDY, of Hopkinsville, was just shy of his seventeenth birthday when he was arrested by police in his hometown. At the time, Godsey was active in ARES as Christian County EC. He claims the impersonation charge stemmed from his ARES association. Police also had charged Godsey with carrying a scanner capable of receiving police frequencies and confiscated his Radio Shack HTX-202. The scanner charge reportedly was dismissed in court the following month, and his H-T was returned to him. The other charges had remained on the court docket, however. Godsey, now 19, said the charges were dropped in December after he agreed to not sue anybody over the matter. Godsey says he and his family spent more than $3000 fighting the charges against him. Source: http://www.arrl.org/news/stories/1999/02/23/3/ I would have ****in' sued to bankrupt the city. Not that I'm bitter about power-mad authority types, oh, no. (Local situation is much better and I am an ARES member. Cops here actually treat us with respect, and get the same in return.) -- Eric F. Richards, "Making me root for a sanctimonious statist blowhard like Kerry isn't the worst thing Bush has done to the country. But it's the offense that I take most personally." -- http://www.reason.com/links/links071304.shtml |
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"Eric F. Richards" wrote in message ... "Buzzygirl" wrote: Hah. You don't remember the case of the kid who was an ARES worker a few years ago... had an RS HTX-202, which had no out-of-band capabilities at all, cop stopped him, kerchunked his radio and -- surprise! -- it desensed his police radio. Confiscation and charges ensued. No, I didn't hear about that. Our tax dollars at work. (Local situation is much better and I am an ARES member. Cops here actually treat us with respect, and get the same in return.) Fortunately, I believe it's the same way here, at least with several PDs I've worked with. They have actually requested the assistance of a couple of local clubs I've belonged to when there've been local fairs and large events. I also belong to a club that works directly with county public emergency personnel. Perhaps this is the exception rather than the rule. Jackie |
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"Buzzygirl" wrote:
"Eric F. Richards" wrote in message ... "Buzzygirl" wrote: Hah. You don't remember the case of the kid who was an ARES worker a few years ago... had an RS HTX-202, which had no out-of-band capabilities at all, cop stopped him, kerchunked his radio and -- surprise! -- it desensed his police radio. Confiscation and charges ensued. No, I didn't hear about that. Our tax dollars at work. (Local situation is much better and I am an ARES member. Cops here actually treat us with respect, and get the same in return.) Fortunately, I believe it's the same way here, at least with several PDs I've worked with. They have actually requested the assistance of a couple of local clubs I've belonged to when there've been local fairs and large events. I also belong to a club that works directly with county public emergency personnel. Perhaps this is the exception rather than the rule. But there are a lot of exceptions. Michigan and Pennsylvania are notorious. I'd work with the Salvation Army, the Red Cross, any humanitarian organization you could think of in those two states, but I would never, ever work with any of their police departments. Jackie -- Eric F. Richards, "Making me root for a sanctimonious statist blowhard like Kerry isn't the worst thing Bush has done to the country. But it's the offense that I take most personally." -- http://www.reason.com/links/links071304.shtml |
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I would have pushed to have the cop charged with impersonating an
amateur radio operator and for transmitting on the ham bands without a license Eric F. Richards wrote: Hah. You don't remember the case of the kid who was an ARES worker a few years ago... had an RS HTX-202, which had no out-of-band capabilities at all, cop stopped him, kerchunked his radio and -- surprise! -- it desensed his police radio. Confiscation and charges ensued. It took a lot of work and time (years) to get it untangled, and it was a headline issue with ARRL for quite a while. The only good news to come out of it was that particular police department got publicised as the ****heads they were. I wonder if there's an active ARES chapter left there... ...search engines are wonderful. Here's a more accurate summary of the endgame: Charges dismissed in Godsey case: It took more than two years, but all charges against a Kentucky ham for impersonating a public servant and disorderly conduct finally were dropped in December. Greg Godsey, KF4BDY, of Hopkinsville, was just shy of his seventeenth birthday when he was arrested by police in his hometown. At the time, Godsey was active in ARES as Christian County EC. He claims the impersonation charge stemmed from his ARES association. Police also had charged Godsey with carrying a scanner capable of receiving police frequencies and confiscated his Radio Shack HTX-202. The scanner charge reportedly was dismissed in court the following month, and his H-T was returned to him. The other charges had remained on the court docket, however. Godsey, now 19, said the charges were dropped in December after he agreed to not sue anybody over the matter. Godsey says he and his family spent more than $3000 fighting the charges against him. Source: http://www.arrl.org/news/stories/1999/02/23/3/ I would have ****in' sued to bankrupt the city. Not that I'm bitter about power-mad authority types, oh, no. |
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On Mon, 06 Sep 2004 09:11:13 -0600, Eric F. Richards
wrote: "Buzzygirl" wrote: Not that this would dissuade the kind of cop who takes your carrying such documentation as a personal challenge to his authority. I would bring it up to a judge in traffic court and lodge a formal complaint with the PD, if it had to go that far. Hah. You don't remember the case of the kid who was an ARES worker a few years ago... had an RS HTX-202, which had no out-of-band capabilities at all, cop stopped him, kerchunked his radio and -- surprise! -- it desensed his police radio. Confiscation and charges ensued. It took a lot of work and time (years) to get it untangled, and it was a headline issue with ARRL for quite a while. The only good news to come out of it was that particular police department got publicised as the ****heads they were. I wonder if there's an active ARES chapter left there... ...search engines are wonderful. Here's a more accurate summary of the endgame: Charges dismissed in Godsey case: It took more than two years, but all charges against a Kentucky ham for impersonating a public servant and disorderly conduct finally were dropped in December. Greg Godsey, KF4BDY, of Hopkinsville, was just shy of his seventeenth birthday when he was arrested by police in his hometown. At the time, Godsey was active in ARES as Christian County EC. He claims the impersonation charge stemmed from his ARES association. Police also had charged Godsey with carrying a scanner capable of receiving police frequencies and confiscated his Radio Shack HTX-202. The scanner charge reportedly was dismissed in court the following month, and his H-T was returned to him. The other charges had remained on the court docket, however. Godsey, now 19, said the charges were dropped in December after he agreed to not sue anybody over the matter. Nice bit of cop thuggery there -- we'll sustain charges against you, probably ruining your chances of getting a job to support yourself with, unless you, in effect hold us harmless from any suit based on our thuggery Wouldn't the correct description be "extortion under color of authority"? "Challenge my authority and enter a living hell for as long as I choose to make it so, especially if you're in the right." Godsey says he and his family spent more than $3000 fighting the charges against him. Source: http://www.arrl.org/news/stories/1999/02/23/3/ I would have ****in' sued to bankrupt the city. Not that I'm bitter about power-mad authority types, oh, no. (Local situation is much better and I am an ARES member. Cops here actually treat us with respect, and get the same in return.) |
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Mark wrote:
Maybe they don't want to attract people to places where police misconduct might be occurring while it's in progress. After all, if you're within a few blocks in yout car, you might just happen to drive by with a camera running. And as long as the police are conducting themselves in a professional and legal manner.......so what if there is a camera on them? "After all, if you don't have anything to hide what are you worried about?" -- "One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
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It is not unlawful to listen to law enforcement transmissions
in the US. What is unlawful is to tell another person what you heard. wrote in message caldomain... -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Unfortunately few of the police officers would really know what they are talkinga bout when it comes to enforcement about laws on scanners and would probably give you the wrong answer out of ignorance or misguided intentions. Thankfully in Australia, the power to regulate scanning and other communications issues rests with our commonwealth government (i.e. federal government) so the state government (and police forces) have no powers to deal with the issues relating to communications. Have seen a couple of state coppers very ****ed off when it was pointed out to them they they had no legal right to confiscate scanners etc (unless used in the commission of a crime) - still, it makes sense not to be too open when using your scanners. In theory only the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has jurisdiction over radio matters. No US state has made OWNING a scanner a crime. I doubt they could. They're FCC type accepted and the FCC has said they're legal in this country. However states and municipalities have passed varying degrees of restrictions on where you can use a scanner. Some get downright ridiculous. Alachua County, Florida passed (or tried to pass) an ordinance banning the monitoring of their digital TRS and possessing information about it (frequencies, talkgroups, etc.). I don't know where that one went. I just say use common sense and discretion and you'll have almost nothing to worry about. - -- John Mayson Austin, Texas, USA -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (Linux) iD8DBQFBSNai2kz4fWh3iuERAqOqAJ9tWExyOHF4qxdYaBoDGe OhsTzfSACfeMke eVkSo/gTlqCft2IB/IFxSHk= =8gh/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- |
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"Mark" wrote in message ... On Wed, 15 Sep 2004 22:55:58 -0400, "Kilcummin" wrote: It is not unlawful to listen to law enforcement transmissions in the US. What is unlawful is to tell another person what you heard. Nooo. That is a very incorrect blanket statement to make. OK, I think what Mark meant is that it is OK to intercept and listen to a "broadcast" made by anyone in the USA. You cannot reveal the information to others. Nothing can stop someone from intercepting a broadcast that is free for any randomly placed antenna to pick up. (Even scrambling and encryption cannot stop the interception. Decrypting the signal is another thing altogether.) Point to point /beamed RF would be something that you are not to intercept. In a point to point situation one would have to purposely place an antenna in the "beam" to pick up the RF. (Not fully, but for intents and purpose.) That could be considered tapping a line. There are definite laws against that. |
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