Under a standard of recency that allowed me to review a 40-year-old book in 2023, I want to celebrate the very recent publication, over a year ago, of two articles on the law of eavesdropping.

ALBANY - A deeply divided Court of Appeals recognized a new exception to the state's illegal eavesdropping statute Tuesday, ruling that parents can surreptitiously record conversations involving their ...

CHICAGO • Chicago police "do not intend to enforce" the Illinois eavesdropping law during next month's NATO summit meeting, Chicago's corporation counsel said in the city's first public acknowledgment ...

CHICAGO (AP) — Last fall, the Perteet brothers and their roommate decided to take a break from studying and headed to a McDonald's in DeKalb for a late-night food run. Their trip was interupted when a ...

ROCK ISLAND — A Moline man who used a cell phone to record a police officer during a Rock Island traffic stop is caught up in Illinois’ arcane eavesdropping laws. Jerry Johnson is charged with ...

CHICAGO (AP) -- In a blow to Illinois' sweeping eavesdropping law, a federal appeals court on Tuesday blocked its enforcement in cases where someone is recording a police officer at work. It was a ...

Only two other states, Massachusetts and Oregon, have similar eavesdropping laws. Illinois' statute referring to recording officials was enacted in 1994. An attempt to roll back the law 11 years later ...

WASHINGTON — The top U.S. intelligence official is telling Congress it shouldn’t succumb to pressure to roll back a new law that enhances the government’s eavesdropping capability on terrorists as ...

CHICAGO | The American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois is suing the state for charging citizens for breaking an eavesdropping law. It says the prosecutions violate the First Amendment. The ACLU said ...