Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site gcc-opus.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!gcc-opus!alien From: alien@gcc-opus.ARPA (Alien Wells) Newsgroups: net.legal Subject: Re: Re: Where are radar detectors illegal? Message-ID: <182@gcc-opus.ARPA> Date: Mon, 7-Jan-85 11:56:13 EST Article-I.D.: gcc-opus.182 Posted: Mon Jan 7 11:56:13 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 9-Jan-85 04:39:01 EST References: <448@mhuxt.UUCP> <193@panda.UUCP> <258@enmasse.UUCP> Reply-To: alien@gcc-opus.UUCP (Alien Wells) Distribution: net Organization: General Computer Company, Cambridge Ma (creators of Ms. Pacman) Lines: 32 Summary: In article <258@enmasse.UUCP> mroddy@enmasse.UUCP (Mark Roddy) writes: >> Connecticut says that the "installation and use of radar >> detectors" is illegal. In reality, any state which has a low forbidding radar detectors cannot enforce it. The FCC classifies radar detectors as radio receivers. There are federal laws protecting the rights of citizens to own and use radio receivers. The first case of a state anti-radar detector law being overturned was in Virginia. HOWEVER, the law itself was NOT overturned, but rather an injunction was placed on Virginia PROHIBITING THEM FROM ENFORCING the law. This means that they are still allowed to put up signs saying 'radar detectors illegal' since they are against the law. However, they are prohibited from enforcing that law by the feds. I know, in particular, that Virginia has had this injunction placed on them. I know that a number of other states have also joined this camp. I do not know if every state with an anti-radar detector law is in this category. I suspect that if someone really cared, an injunction could also be placed on them forbidding them from threatening people with a law they cannot prosecute, but I am not a legal expert. There is a book out called 'The Ticket Book' (can't remember the author or publisher, sorry) which I highly recommend for anyone interested. It is written by a former cop who did a lot of research, and has a lot of inside information about the psyche and methods of traffic cops. Alien