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- Title: Washington V. Faford
- Author : Supreme Court of Washington
- Release Date : January 01, 1996
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 65 KB
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DOLLIVER, J.--Wayne C. Fields eavesdropped on his neighbors' telephone conversations twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week over several months. Had he used an electronic eavesdropping device to tap a landline to a conventional telephone, Washington's privacy act (RCW 9.73) would have undoubtedly prohibited Fields' private surveillance activities. Like many Washington citizens, however, the targeted neighbors were speaking on a cordless telephone, not a conventional telephone. Fields purchased a police scanner specifically to eavesdrop on the radio portion of those cordless telephone conversations and then related their substance to the police. A trial court decided the privacy act does not apply to prohibit scanner monitoring of cordless telephone calls and proceeded to admit evidence from both the cordless telephone conversations and a subsequent, warrantless police search based on that information. We reverse and remand.