Re: (PS) Invasion of privacy?

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On 8/14/07, roger wrote:
> I am an instructor at a university in Oklahoma, and I have
> found a baby monitor hidden in the class room placed there
> by another instructor. I shouldn’t say I found it, but a
> couple of my students actually found it. They came to me
> really upset because they thought it was an invasion of
> their privacy. Is there any wrong doing here, legally?

Here is the OK Eavesdropping statute. It is much shorter
than the USC statute but is basically the same.

CHAPTER 4. CARRIERS OF MESSAGES
SECURITY OF COMMUNICATIONS ACT

13 Okl. St. § 176.3 (2007). Prohibited acts:
Except as otherwise specifically provided in this act,
any person is guilty of a felony and upon conviction shall
be punished by a fine of not less than Five Thousand Dollars
($ 5,000.00), or by imprisonment of not more than five (5)
years, or by both who:

1. Willfully intercepts, endeavors to intercept or
procures any other person to intercept or endeavor to
intercept any wire, oral or electronic communication;

2. Willfully uses, endeavors to use or procures any other
person to use or endeavor to use any electronic, mechanical
or other device to intercept any oral communication;

3. Willfully discloses or endeavors to disclose to any
other person the contents of any wire, oral or electronic
communication, knowing or having reason to know that the
information was obtained in violation of the provisions of
the Security of Communications Act;

4. Willfully uses or endeavors to use the contents of any
wire, oral or electronic communication, knowing or having
reason to know that the information was obtained in
violation of the provisions of the Security of
Communications Act;

5. Willfully and maliciously, without legal authority,
removes, injures or obstructs any telephone or telegraph
line, or any part or appurtenances or apparatus connected
thereto, or severs any wires thereof;

6. Sends through the mail or sends or carries any
electronic, mechanical or other device with the intention of
rendering the device primarily useful for the purpose of the
illegal interception of wire, oral or electronic
communications in violation of the provisions of the
Security of Communications Act;

7. Manufactures, assembles, possesses or sells any
electronic, mechanical or other device with the intention of
rendering the device primarily useful for the purpose of the
illegal interception of wire, oral or electronic
communications in violation of the provisions of the
Security of Communications Act; or

8. Willfully uses any communication facility in
committing or in causing or facilitating the commission of
any act or acts constituting one or more of the felonies
enumerated in Section 176.7 of this title. Each separate use
of a communication facility to cause or facilitate such a
felony shall be a separate offense. Venue for any violation
of this section shall lie in the same county as venue for
the underlying felony enumerated in Section 176.7 of this
title.
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This OK statute was written before wiretapping but shows the
intent to prevent Eavesdropping.

21 Okl. St. § 1202. Eavesdropping

Every person guilty of secretly loitering about any
building, with intent to overhear discourse therein, and to
repeat or publish the same to vex, annoy, or injure others,
is guilty of a misdemeanor.