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Voice Recorders
Is it illegal, if you are living in a college dorm with a roommate, to set up a voice recorder on your own desk to record what is going on in the room while you are not there?
I really need to know!
I'm talking about a digital voice recorder. I found out my roommate did something illegal and I'm trying to get her for it. I need to know if I can use the recording as legitimate evidence for what she did.
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Generally speaking, it is illegal for a law-enforcement agency (police, FBI, CIA) to bug or wiretap someone without a warrant. If you record your roommate without her knowledge or consent, any evidence you obtain could not be used in court. If you're concerned, contact your local police or campus authorities. You could create a lot of problems with your roommate if something goes wrong with your plan.
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It does depend a bit on where you live and what the crime was. In some civil cases you would be allowed to do this, and in some counteries the illegal recording (because recording someone without permission is certainly illegal) wouldn't be automatically excluded as evidence. But as a general rule: you can not use it as evidence unless you tell her you will be recording her.
If you are having a problem with a roommate, best to bring up your fears and worries with a don, not to try to be a junior sleuth.
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normally that is illegal.
the only way it wouldn't be is if you told the people you were gonna get her for it to prove them was to let them know ahead of time. Unless its for your own personal reason's and your just keeping it to yourself then jsut don't let her find it.
but if she finds it, you could be in a lot of trouble.
hope i helped!
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