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- From: plaws@uafhp.uark.edu (Peter Laws)
- Newsgroups: misc.emerg-services
- Subject: Scanner laws... (NOT illegal! - mostly)
- Date: 27 Jan 1993 20:30:06 -0600
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- Reply-To: Peter Laws <plaws@uafhp.uark.edu>
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- Last year somebody (and I don't know who) typed in the chart of state
- scanner laws that was in Pop' Comm last summer. I have the list if anyone
- would like it. It is about 9k, so I'm reluctant to post it. I also have
- a "Intro to Scanning by Bob Parnass" file that has some info about legal
- issues.
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- Bottom line is this: there are less than a dozen states that prohibit
- *mobile* use of scanners. And, as someone posted previously, most of
- those states exempt Licensed Amateur Radio Operators.
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- <soapboxmode -on>
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- What law-abiding Americans should be concerned with is the fact that Our
- Congress continues to pass laws that restrict our right to listen to
- certain portions of the *PUBLIC* radio spectrum. Of course, I refer to
- the CTIA's (Cellular Telephone Industry Association) successful lobbying
- campaign to get a small clause added to a Bill (concerning restricting
- 1-900 phone services -- but that's another thread!) that makes it illegal
- to manufacture, import, or sell scanners capable of "monitoring cellular
- phone transmissions" or capable of being "easily modified" to do same.
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- This marks the first time in the history of Radio in the US that the
- common folk have been prohibited, not only from listening to certain
- portions of the *PUBLIC* radio spectrum, but of even buying a radio with
- said capability! It is *NOT* illegal, I'd like to point out, to do the
- same in Germany or other historically restrictive countries.
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- What's next? Illegal to listen to the Cops? The Fire?
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- <soapboxmode -off>
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- PS- Someone also sent me the text of "The ECPA of 1986", the first law
- that the CTIA got *their* Congress to pass that makes it a *crime* to
- listen to cell-phones. Question: How far will the government go to
- enforce this? Will they get a warrant to come into your home check all
- the memories in your Bearcat? 8-) 8-| 8-( >:-(
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- Peter Laws|GEnie:P.LAWS1| "Finally: one of our guys is |plaws@uafhp.uark.edu
- n5uwy@ka5bml.ar.usa.noam| driving the car"--Dennis Miller|plaws@uafsysb.bitnet
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