In the News – Parents Can Legally Eavesdrop on their Kids in New York State

The New York State Court of Appeals held last week that parents can legally eavesdrop on young children if they reasonably believe it would be in the child’s best interest, establishing an exception to New York law against wiretaps without the consent of at least one person on a call.

The 4-3 ruling by the Court of Appeals involved a cellphone recording of a man threatening to beat the 5-year-old son of his live-in girlfriend. The boy’s father recorded the conversation.

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