Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 (Tek) 9/26/83; site teklabs.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!tekcrl!teklabs!rafaeld From: rafaeld@teklabs.UUCP (Rafael De Arce) Newsgroups: net.auto Subject: Radar detectors, radar jamming, the police and the F.C.C. Message-ID: <3176@teklabs.UUCP> Date: Tue, 20-Aug-85 14:41:46 EDT Article-I.D.: teklabs.3176 Posted: Tue Aug 20 14:41:46 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 24-Aug-85 03:26:18 EDT Organization: Tektronix, Beaverton OR Lines: 17 Someone suggested that if a person was caught by the local police jamming their radar guns, that the local police would have their day with them. Illegal emissions of RF is a federal matter prosecutable solely by the federal government. The local police could only serve as witnesses for the F.C.C. that a crime, indeed, took place. In the cases where people were jamming CB frequencies or ham repeaters... It was the F.C.C. that cought and procecuted the jammers. NOT LOCAL POLICE! The reason for this is simply that RF knows no bounds and local law enforce ment has a well defined jurisdiction. One could easily post ones self on top a hill in the next county or state and jam any and all frequencies and feel self assured that the police in the next county or state couldn't lay a finger on them. The F.C.C. has jurisdiction over the entire U.S.A. and its posessions and ships at sea registered under the american flag.