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wiretaps from Privacy digest
From: David Farber <farber () central cis upenn edu>
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 1994 17:23:36 -0500
Date: Sun, 9 Jan 1994 17:41:52 -0500 (EST) From: John Higgins <higgins () dorsai dorsai org> Subject: wiretaps Are the cops tapping your phone? If you live in Oklahoma, Rhode Island or Virginia, probably not. But if you're really paranoid don't move to New York City, New Jersey or Florida. On Jan. 9. New York Newsday published an article on wiretaps listing them by location. Citing a report compiled by the Administrative Office of the United States Courts, the article said that New York State cops lead the country with 197 wiretaps installed in 1992. The aforementioned low-tap states reported intalling just 1 phone or room bug, but of the 39 states that have wiretap statutes 17 reported no taps AT ALL (no, I don't know which states those are). Of the federal jurisdictions not on the list, 44 reported fewer than 10 taps for the year, including 19 who reported one tap and 36 who reported zero. I know that cops hate wiretaps, especially room bugs because they're so labor intensive, but this doesn't seem like a whole lot of wiretaps in some of these areas. Only seven local taps in Massachusetts? Three state wiretaps in all of California? If these are accurate reports, this is far less pervasive than I would have expected. STATE AND LOCAL WIRETAP ACTIVITY (1992) New York 197 Nebraska 4 New Jersey 111 Nevada 4 Florida 80 Utah 3 Pennsylvania 77 Minnesota 3 Maryland 17 California 3 Georgia 16 Colorado 2 Connecticut 15 New Hampshire 2 Texas 14 New Mexico 2 Arizona 12 Virginia 1 Kansas 7 Rhode Island 1 Massachusetts 7 Oklahoma 1 FEDERAL WIRETAP ACTIVITY (1992) Eastern Dist of NY 35 Central Dist of Calif. 14 Southern Dist. of NY 25 Arizona 12 Southern Dist of Fla. 20 Western Dist. of NY 12 New Jersey 18 Easter Dist. of Penn. 12 Northern DIst of Tex. 16 Middle Dist of Florida 11 Colorado 15 Eastern Dist. of Mich. 10 Maryland 15 Southern Dist. of Tex 10 I'm going to try and obtain the full report this week. John M. Higgins higgins () dorsai dorsai org Multichannel News CIS:75266,3353 V)212-887-8390/F)212-887-8384 ------------------------------
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