Your papers please

[Duncan Frissell]

Don't do it in Massachusetts.  They consider it wiretapping.  Most states 
aren't so funny.  But why take it out.  Leave it in your pocket (save when 
clearing the metal detector, of ocurse).

DCF

At 03:48 PM 10/18/01 -0700, Jamie Lawrence wrote:
>Sometime around  02:50 PM 10/18/2001 -0700, Steve Schear opined thusly:
>
>
> >http://cgi.newcity.com/exitlog/frameset.php?close=http://www.citypaper.ne 
> t/articles/101801/news.godfrey.shtml&back=http://www.newcity.com
>
>
>Does anyone know the legal issues surrounding the act of taking
>a pocket tape recorder and recording at least my side of  this sort
>of transaction?
>
>I know what the likely result would be; I wondered if I had any
>obligation not to record anything I might happen to say while
>interacting with airport authorities.
>
>-j