Our station is both Fire, and EMS. The City PD also operates out of the same building, along with the city water department. Fire, EMS, LEO, and yes even the Water Department, are all equipted with the same scanner I have in my vehicle. Until the KRS statue was brought up, I had no idea that I needed -written- permission from every department. I'll have to talk to the captain when he gets back from his lil vacation. I have known most of the cops, all two of them on the OPD, for a long while, and they haven't given myself, or anyone else, any crap or tickets about the scanners. Not that I am saying the law is unenforceable, or down-playing it at all, just think it's one of those things that is pretty much ignored, and over-looked at large by our LEO's. After all, the PD can listen in on our frequencies at anytime, and they DO dispatch us to scenes when our own dispatcher is off-duty.
I have a feeling I'm going to get laughed at by the PD, and the Captain for asking for written permission to use a scanner he, and the rest of the station personal uses, both at home and in their POV's.