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Originally Posted by BlackArcher101
Listening to the channels is not illegal, but disclosing to others what you heard is. This is why media can listen, but can't report on what they hear. They have to find the facts themselves, they just use what they hear as a tool. Even in HAM radio, the conversations are deemed to be private and is illegal to disclose them to anybody else, even though anybody could hear it with the right equipment.
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It's legal to stream it on the internet (and Airdrie RCMP radio is indeed available for stream) so essentially you're absolved from any legal repercussions as the "information you have" could have simply come from someone who transcribed it.