What are the rules for tape recording conversations?
Chapter 626A of the Minnesota Statutes deals with the privacy of communications. See, https://www.revisor.leg.state.mn.us/statutes/?id=626a. Court decisions interpreting the statutes may also be important. To review cases decided after May of 1996 search online at http://search.state.mn.us/lawlibrary/ . The statute section number (for example 626A.02) makes an effective keyword search. Minnesota Statutes Annotated (available in the Law Library) includes earlier cases. This is an area where federal law may also apply. The United States Code is available from: http://straylight.law.cornell.edu/uscode/. An annotation that may be of interest is “Applicability, in civil action, of provisions of Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968, prohibiting interception of communications (18 USC sec. 2511(1)), to interceptions by spouse, or spouse’s agent, of conversation of other spouse,” volume 139 ALR Fed. page 517. ALR Federal is available in the Law Library. There are additional ethica
