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Reasonable Expectation of Privacy at Police Stations

By M. James Jenkins, Esq.

A corollary issue to the blog written below, "Recording Telephone Conversations and Communications in Florida," about the recording of telephone conversations is a person's reasonable expectations of privacy in police stations and in the back of police squad cars. People being interviewed or detained should be aware there is no right to a reasonable expectaion of privacy in their conversations in either of these locations. Most squad cars these days are equipped with recording devices that record a suspect's statements while sitting in the back of the squad car. Often times, suspects are deliberately placed in squad cars together without police supervision by officers so a recording can be made of their conversation. A recent appellate court decision held that even when a third-party overhears or records a conversation between a suspect and his wife in a police station, even if they are not suspects or being interviewed, their is no "marital privilege" and the officer can testify about the conversation...continue to full post

Full post as published by Florida Criminal Law Blog on August 24, 2009 (boomark / email).