Oklahoma -
Security of Communications Act
Section 176.4 - Acts Not Prohibited.
It is not unlawful pursuant to the Security of Communications Act for:
1. an operator of a switchboard, or an officer, employee, or agent of any
communication common carrier whose facilities are used in the transmission of a
wire, oral or electronic communication to intercept, disclose, or use that
communication in the normal course of his employment while engaged in any
activity which is a necessary incident to the rendition of his service or to the
protection of the rights or property of the carrier of such communication. Said
communication common carriers shall not utilize service observing or random
monitoring except for mechanical or service quality control checks; or
2. an officer, employee, or agent of any communication common carrier or other
person authorized to provide information, facilities, or technical assistance to
a law enforcement officer who is authorized to intercept a wire, oral or
electronic communication; or
3. an officer, employee, or agent of the Federal Communications Commission, in
the normal course of his employment and in discharge of the monitoring
responsibilities exercised by the Commission in the enforcement of Chapter 5 of
Title 47 of the United States Code, to intercept a wire, oral or electronic
communication transmitted by radio or to disclose or use the information
obtained; or
4. a person acting under color of law to intercept a wire, oral or electronic
communication when such person is a party to the communication or one of the
parties to the communication has given prior consent to such interception; or
5. a person not acting under color of law to intercept a wire, oral or
electronic communication when such person is a party to the communication or
when one of the parties to the communication has given prior consent to such
interception unless the communication is intercepted for the purpose of
committing any criminal act; or
6. a communication common carrier or an officer, agent, or employee thereof, or
a person under contract with a communication common carrier, in the normal
course of the business of the communication common carrier bidding upon
contracts with or in the course of doing business with the United States, a
state, or a political subdivision thereof, in the normal course of the
activities of said entities, to send through the mail, send or carry in
interstate or foreign commerce, manufacture, assemble, possess, or sell any
electronic, mechanical, or other device knowing or having reason to know that
the design of such device renders the device primarily useful for the purpose of
the illegal interception of wire, oral or electronic communications; or
7. an officer or employee of the Oklahoma Department of Corrections to monitor
any wire, oral or electronic communication where an incarcerated inmate is a
party to that communication, if the inmate is given prior and conspicuous notice
of the surveillance or monitoring.