Posted on 07/28/2005 6:44:27 AM PDT by Happy Valley Dude
It's not illegal in Oklahoma.
Newbie!
Is it also illegal to tape obsecene phone calls or threats to ones life?
Welcome to Free Republic and thanks for the article ...interesting...
Excuse me for a few hours while I regain my composure here - I'm laughing so hard it just can't be healthy.
It's a federal violation - so it's illegal in OK. also.
The Miami Herald is a great paper...
...to wrap fish with.
Their nuts if they think I'll trust them.
We expect the worst from them and they usually manage to fulfill that expectation.
Incorrect. It's perfectly legal in single party consent states. Federal law doesn't come into consideration until the call crosses state lines. If both states are single party consent there's no violation.
The laws on taping phone cnversations vary on a state by state basis. It's not a federal issue.
Happy Valley Dude
Since Aug 30, 2000
Don't think so. Here it's perfectly legal as long a one of the parties is aware of the recording.
This tells you all you need to know about DeFeded. The MNT is one of those ultra-liberal Rags, which doesn't do much more than bash conservatives on every other page. Although I do enjoy reading the "Savage Love" column, but thats the libertarian in me...
The federal law makes it unlawful to record telephone conversations except in one party consent cases which permit one party consent recording by state law. What that means is a person can record their own telephone conversations without the knowledge or consent of the other party in those states that allow one party consent.
Not true. Federal law permits one-party consent, meaning you can record your own conversations, or someone else's conversations, so long as at least one party consents to the recording. Florida is a two-party consent state, though, meaning both parties must consent to the recording for it to be legal under state law. Oklahoma is a one-party consent state, FWIW - read more here.
Where it gets complicated is if the phone call crosses state lines from a one-party consent state to a two-party consent state, but it doesn't sound like that happened here.
It is legal in Texas to record your telephone conversations. But I don't know about calls which cross the State line.
Ease up, Dude:)
No it is not illegal in Oklahoma. Federal law forbids telephone recordings by a third party when neither of the two principal parties on the conversation have consented.
Oklahoma, along with 37 other states, is a "one party consent" state, which means that if one party agrees to the recording (in this case the reporter) it is legal under federal law. Florida, along with 11 other states, is a "two party consent" state.
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