Chief Allen Park tells The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review that Churchill police charged the 14-year-old Woodland Hills High School student with violating Pennsylvania's wiretap law earlier this year.Park says the boy recorded a September meeting called to settle a dispute with another student without permission and then posted the audio on Facebook.
The teen now finds himself at the center of the controversy surrounding Principal Kevin Murray, who was placed on leave Wednesday after the boy produced a recording where Murray can be heard saying he would punch him in the face. more
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Pennsylvania is a 2-party consent sate, meaning all parties to a recorded conversation must agree to the recording.
And no, the principal is not me. I live in New Jersey... where the last words recorded might be, "Take him for a ride." ~Kevin
UPDATE - One of our sharp readers from Pennsylvania points out that the kid may not have broken the law after all. An exemption was amended to the state law in 2012...
§ 5704. Exceptions to prohibition of interception and disclosure of communications.
(17) Any victim, witness or private detective licensed under the act of August 21, 1953 (P.L.1273, No.361), known as The Private Detective Act of 1953, to intercept the contents of any wire, electronic or oral communication, if that person is under a reasonable suspicion that the intercepted party is committing, about to commit or has committed a crime of violence and there is reason to believe that evidence of the crime of violence may be obtained from the interception.
