"zerg90" wrote in message
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I Googled "Joe Howerd" & Kansas - this was the only hit - from 2004 -
a prison guard sent to a mental hospital -
http://www.slashlegal.com/showthread.php?t=49210

I think that the Wiretap Act has superceded the Comms Act of 1934. The
Wiretap Act seems to say that you cannot tell anyone what you have
seen on TV, unless you turned the TV on accidentaly. At best, I think
the Federal law is very murky. Does anyone really think that it is
legal to have a scanner, but it is illegal to tell anyone what you
hear? That is CREWL and unusual punishment :-)

There is a recent thread at radioreference.com about this. Peter Sz


That's why any time I see something like this, with no links, I am very
skeptical. There are so many stores that make the rounds on Usenet, that
soon take on a life of their own. The better it sounds, the faster it
spreads, so of course with each re telling it tends to get better.

Back when analog cell phones could be listened in on, if you taped
something, I could see it getting you in some hot water, but verbally
telling someone what you heard? I find it VERY hard to believe that any DA
would waste any time even looking into it. Unless you tell the DA yourself,
all the "evidence" is nothing but hearsay.
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