RESPONSIBLE CITY AGENCY: City Attorney's Office
KEYWORDS: Telephone, Radio, Conversations, Recording, Monitoring, Wiretaps, Communications.
1. General
1.1 Salt Lake City does not record or monitor its employees’ telephone and radio conversations except in the case of:
A. Electronic communications in which an employee is being trained and monitoring the employee is a normal part of the training process;
B. Police and Fire Dispatch electronic communications;
C. Airport Control Center electronic communications;
D. Electronic communications recorded or monitored within the scope and duties of a police or fire investigation:
1. When the person monitoring the communication is a party to the communication; or,
2. When one of the parties to the communication gives prior consent to the recording or monitoring of the communication.
E. A City employee, not acting within the scope and duties of a police or fire investigation, but who is:
1. Acting with the prior consent of one of the parties and the recording is necessary to protect the City and/or its employees; or,
2. A party to the communication and the recording is necessary to protect the City and/or its employees.
1.2. This order shall not restrict any interceptions made:
A. Pursuant to court orders;
B. Pursuant to any pen register or trap and trace device authorized by law;
C. To record the fact that an electronic communication was initiated or completed; or,
D. To record the numbers of the electronic communication devices used.
1.3 Definitions:
A. Electronic communication: any transfer of signals containing the human voice.
CURRENT REFERENCES: U.C.A. 77-23a-4(7)(a)
U.S.C. 2511(2)(c)
U.S.C. 2511(2)(d)
PRE-1995 REFERENCES:
EFFECTIVE DATE: October 1, 1995
DATE APPROVED BY CABINET: September 6, 1995