CHICAGO (AP) - State lawmakers must draw up a new eavesdropping law now that the Illinois Supreme Court has declared the old one unconstitutional.
The court released two related opinions Thursday on the 1961 statute. The law made it a crime to record conversations unless all parties involved agreed. The justices found the law was way too broad.
The justices took pains to say a narrower law protecting truly private conversation would be lawful
State Rep. Elaine Nekritz opposed aspects of the old law. But she’s says the law did help establish what she describes as the sound principle that two parties in a clearly private conversation must both agree about recording the conversation. The Northbrook Democrat expressed concern some lawmakers might push to leave that principle out of any overhauled statute.
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