Recording Fire Audio / Legal advice

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chad3405

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I a member of a small Vol. fire dept. recently I have been using Audacity 1.3 to record our calls using a head phone jack in a Motorola Minitor V pager and then playing it at our training reviews. It really seems to help the guys hear and learn from mistakes made.

My question is if I took my recording and posted it on you tube or the dept website would that be legal? I would keep it private status any way but just wanted to make sure.

Thanks Chad
 

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Legal questions are best left to the lawyers. This is a hobbyist website dedicated to radio monitoring, so you will get a variety of legal opinions here. Most would say there isn't a problem with what you are doing.

If you want legal advice, ask an attorney.
 

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I would think it would be legal since you can request those audio tapes from 911. I'm not a lawyer but if it doesn't have full names in the audio on the air waves are not encrypt I don't see a problem.
 

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great thanks!
and like I said this isn't going to be open to the public only to my fire fighters for training. I didn't think that it would be illegal since we can request the same thing through open records act.
 

chad3405

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Cool man thanks

Also you should check out Audacity 1.3 it has a feature for sound activated recording. so you wouldn't need to edit out all the dead air recording.. Also lets you record at a higher quality since it doesn't waste space.

let me know how it works for you.
 
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