Specific questions, answered straight.

Can My Employer Stop Me From Recording a Conversation With HR?

Workplace recording policy versus your right to document what happens in the room.

Is It Legal to Record Coworkers Talking About Pay or Unionizing?

Federal labor law protection that exists independently of state recording law.

Can I Record a Workplace Investigation Interview?

What changes when the conversation is with an investigator, not a coworker.

Is It Illegal to Record Your Boss Firing You?

The recording-law question, separate from whether it's a smart career move.

Can a Company Fire You for Secretly Recording at Work?

Workplace policy enforceability versus your underlying legal right to record.

Recording a Coworker for a Discrimination Complaint — Is It Legal?

Building your own evidence file without crossing a line.

Can I Record My Own Therapy Session?

Why recording your own session is a different question from recording someone else's.

Is It Legal to Record a Doctor's Appointment?

What healthcare-specific rules add on top of ordinary consent law.

Recording a Telehealth Visit — Do You Need Permission?

Video-call consent rules meet healthcare privacy rules.

Can I Record a Conversation About My Own Substance-Abuse Treatment?

A federal confidentiality law most people have never heard of.

Can I Record My Spouse Without Their Knowledge for a Divorce Case?

Legal to capture and usable in family court are two different bars.

Is It Legal to Record a Custody Exchange?

A driveway handoff isn't quite public and isn't quite private either.

Can a Parent Record Their Child's Phone Calls?

Vicarious consent — why a parent's own consent can sometimes stand in for a minor's.

Recording a Conversation With Your Ex at a Custody Handoff — Is It Admissible?

Getting it legally is only step one; getting it into evidence is step two.

Can a School Record Students Without Parental Consent?

FERPA, state education codes, and ordinary consent law, layered together.

Is It Legal to Record an IEP Meeting?

Several states write a specific recording right into special-education law.

Can I Record My Landlord Entering My Apartment Without Notice?

Your own home gives you the benefit of the doubt in most states.

Is It Legal for a Landlord to Install Hidden Cameras in a Rental?

Voyeurism statutes that exist on top of, and separate from, wiretap law.

Can My Lease Legally Ban Me From Recording?

Whether a private contract can waive a right state law gives you.

Is It Legal to Record the Police During a Traffic Stop?

One of the most well-established recording rights — and where it still varies.

Can You Record a City Council Meeting?

Open-meetings law gives you an affirmative right most people don't know they have.

Recording ICE or Border Patrol — What Are Your Rights?

Federal agents and municipal police aren't governed by identical rules.

Can Police Confiscate Your Phone or Glasses After an Arrest?

What happens to the device — and the recording on it — once you're in custody.

Is It Legal to Record Inside a Courtroom?

A separate rulebook from ordinary consent law, and a stricter one.

Can You Be Arrested for Filming a Police Officer in Public?

The gap between what's legal and what happens on the ground.

Why Does My Bank Say "This Call May Be Recorded" — Is That Required?

The familiar disclosure line, and what law actually requires it.

Is It Legal to Record a Call With Your Financial Advisor?

Sector-specific rules that can override a state's general consent default.

Recording a Real Estate Closing Call — What's Allowed?

High-stakes calls, ordinary consent rules.

Can I Legally Record My Child's Teacher?

Parent-side recording rights at school, separate from a school's own recording practices.

Is Recording a Bullying Incident at School Illegal?

Documenting a problem without creating a new one.

Can Border Agents Search Your Phone or Smartglasses at the Airport?

The border search exception, and how far it actually reaches.

Is It Legal to Record an ICE Encounter at Your Home?

Your home is where consent law usually gives you the most room.

What Happens to a Recording Device When You're Detained?

Custody, property inventory, and what becomes of what you captured.

Can a Recording Be Thrown Out of Court If It Was Made Illegally?

Illegality at capture and inadmissibility at trial aren't automatically the same thing.

If I Send My Lawyer a Recording, Does That Waive Privilege?

What can quietly break attorney-client protection before a case even starts.

What Happens If You Delete a Recording During a Lawsuit?

Spoliation — a duty to preserve evidence that can start before you're even sued.

Is a Recording "Work Product" If Your Lawyer Told You to Make It?

Why who directed the recording, and when, changes its legal protection.

Can the Other Side in a Lawsuit Force You to Hand Over a Recording?

Legal to make doesn't mean protected from discovery.

Is Destroying a Recording a Crime, Even If You Made It Legally?

Evidence-tampering law applies to your own recordings too.

Is It Legal to Record Someone's Voiceprint Without Telling Them?

Biometric privacy law is a separate statute from ordinary wiretap law.

Which States Have Biometric Privacy Laws Like Illinois' BIPA?

A short list of states where voiceprint capture carries real legal exposure.

Can an AI Legally Transcribe Your Conversations Without Consent?

An unsettled question most recording-law guides don't even mention.

Is Smartglasses Recording Treated Differently Than a Phone Camera Under the Law?

What actually changes legally when the camera moves from your hand to your face.

How Long Can a Company Legally Keep Your Voiceprint Data?

Retention limits under biometric privacy statutes.

Project Veritas v. Schmidt: Why Oregon's Recording Law Survived a First Amendment Challenge

Inside the 2025 en banc Ninth Circuit ruling and what it settled.

Kearney v. Salomon Smith Barney: How California Decided Whose Recording Law Applies on an Interstate Call

The case behind the "apply the stricter state's rule" advice.

State v. Graber: The Maryland Case That Changed How Police-Recording Prosecutions Get Enforced

A motorcyclist, a wiretap charge, and the case that became a cautionary tale.

Akins v. Knight: What It Means to Record Someone Who Doesn't Know They're Being Recorded

A real case applying the rule most people only know in the abstract.

Can You Be Sued for Recording a Phone Call Across State Lines?

Interstate calls put more than one state's law in play at once.

One-Party vs. All-Party Consent States: What's Actually the Difference?

The single most-searched recording-law question, answered straight.

Recording as a Guest in Someone Else's Home: What Changes When It's Not Your House

The home exception that applies to a homeowner often doesn't extend to a visitor.

ABA Formal Opinion 01-422: Is It Unethical for a Lawyer to Record Someone Without Telling Them?

The ethics opinion that governs attorneys, separate from the criminal recording statute.

What Counts as a "Private" or "Confidential" Conversation Under Recording Law?

The threshold question that decides whether all-party consent even applies.