Re: (PS) Invasion of privacy?

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So what would the next step be if my coworker is in fact
invading my privacy or eavedropping.

On 8/14/07, annon. wrote:
> 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.
> ********************************
> 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.