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Shawn wrote:
Can you record them in Utah? If so, get one of the pin recorders ASAP. Good Job...Keep it up.
I am not a lawyer and other standard disclaimers.
However, my best understanding is that in Utah only ONE party to a conversation need consent or even be aware for the conversation to be legally recorded. You are perfectly legal to carry a discrete recorder and use it without informing the other parties to a conversation, to record your own phone calls without telling the other person, etc.
However, do NOT leave your recording running outside your presence. Even by accident. Leaving it running in your coat, for example, while you step out of a room to visit the head would constitute an illegal tap unless some other person in the room was also aware of the recorder and consented to its use.
If you put a recorder on your phone, be sure that EVERYONE who uses the phone is aware of and consents to the recorder, including your spouse and any visitors who use the phone. Your own minor children you can probably record without their knowledge or consent. Not sure how federal law goes on phones if the call crosses State lines.
