JoeSparky
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nitrovic wrote:
It was not a professional discussion!
JoeSparky
nitrovic wrote:
In this situation they had "interupted" a couple who were "entertaining" themselves about 2am in a local park... After the incident was resolved the ongoing "discussion" between the officers was about the appearant "lack of beauty" of the female participant who happened to be only 16 years old....JoeSparky wrote:
Sleepless wrote:JoeSparky wrote:nitrovic wrote:JoeSparky wrote:
SNIP...
And there is NO law against receiving the radio signals, even the "Confidential" ones. There are laws that prohibit the telling of others what was heard however. Some juridictions do prohibit the "mobile" use of scanners but generally have exceptions for properly liscensed Radio operators like Hams! Don't mean you won't get hassled by "the man"!
Terrible shame that congress passed the laws preventing the receptions of Cell phone calls however.It just makes the scanners more expensive!
JoeSparky
Joe I have heard that whatever we hear and send doing ARES operation are not allowed to be passedrepeated tonon-hams not part of the ARES operation but not sure if that is true or not.
73 de VE2SWE/VA2TLC =o)
Please see bolded part above.
I used to hear ssn's, names, addresses, dl numbers, license tags, and all sorts of "privacy type" stuff. Since more and more agencies are going to internet based car computer systems I hear MUCH less.
I did make a call to local police dispatch several years ago suggesting that the officers might want to be more carefull about what they were saying over the air between themselves after a call. Never heard dispatch on the air about it but as one was transmitting I heard his cell phone ring.... They ended the discussion then. I was sure glad it wasn't MY daughter they were talking about!!!!!
JoeSparky
Just fyi, tag numbers aren't confidential in the least. If it's in public view it's usually public knowledge. If they were giving out CCH (criminal history's) or driving transcript info then yes, that is considered "for official use only".
It was not a professional discussion!
JoeSparky