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City officials can be sued for tapping office phones (access required)

Published: July 10, 2009

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A mayor and police chief could be sued for violating the civil rights of municipal employees by surreptitiously recording calls placed from workplace phones, the 7th Circuit has ruled in affirming a denial of immunity. Officials in Bellwood, Ill., authorized the secret recording of phone calls from the village’s finance department to address concerns that the ...
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