{"data":{"id":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-13-13-176.4","jurisdiction":"us-ok","citation":"Okla. Stat. tit. 13, § 13-176.4","heading":"Acts not prohibited","body":"It is not unlawful pursuant to the Security of Communications\n\nAct for:\n\n1. an operator of a switchboard, or an officer, employee, or\n\nagent of any communication common carrier whose facilities are used\n\nin the transmission of a wire, oral or electronic communication to\n\nintercept, disclose, or use that communication in the normal course\n\nof his employment while engaged in any activity which is a necessary\n\nincident to the rendition of his service or to the protection of the\n\nrights or property of the carrier of such communication. Said\n\ncommunication common carriers shall not utilize service observing or\n\nrandom monitoring except for mechanical or service quality control\n\nchecks; or\n\n2. an officer, employee, or agent of any communication common\n\ncarrier or other person authorized to provide information,\n\nfacilities, or technical assistance to a law enforcement officer who\n\nis authorized to intercept a wire, oral or electronic communication;\n\nor\n\n3. an officer, employee, or agent of the Federal Communications\n\nCommission, in the normal course of his employment and in discharge\n\nof the monitoring responsibilities exercised by the Commission in\n\nthe enforcement of Chapter 5 of Title 47 of the United States Code,\n\nto intercept a wire, oral or electronic communication transmitted by\n\nradio or to disclose or use the information obtained; or\n\n4. a person acting under color of law to intercept a wire, oral\n\nor electronic communication when such person is a party to the\n\ncommunication or one of the parties to the communication has given\n\nprior consent to such interception; or\n\n5. a person not acting under color of law to intercept a wire,\n\noral or electronic communication when such person is a party to the\n\ncommunication or when one of the parties to the communication has\n\ngiven prior consent to such interception unless the communication is\n\nintercepted for the purpose of committing any criminal act; or\n\n6. a communication common carrier or an officer, agent, or\n\nemployee thereof, or a person under contract with a communication\n\ncommon carrier, in the normal course of the business of the\n\ncommunication common carrier bidding upon contracts with or in the\n\ncourse of doing business with the United States, a state, or a\n\npolitical subdivision thereof, in the normal course of the\n\nactivities of said entities, to send through the mail, send or carry\n\nin interstate or foreign commerce, manufacture, assemble, possess,\n\nor sell any electronic, mechanical, or other device knowing or\n\nhaving reason to know that the design of such device renders the\n\ndevice primarily useful for the purpose of the illegal interception\n\nof wire, oral or electronic communications; or\n\n7. an officer or employee of the Oklahoma Department of\n\nCorrections to monitor any wire, oral or electronic communication\n\nwhere an incarcerated inmate is a party to that communication, if\n\nthe inmate is given prior and conspicuous notice of the surveillance\n\nor monitoring.","path":["OK Code","Title 13"],"source_url":"https://www.oklegislature.gov/OK_Statutes/CompleteTitles/os13.pdf","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-14","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T18:32:36Z","sha256":"9e6419355ef5ac5936e629ad83b0765c130a6409bb2bae140ea4628947b89616","source_id":"us-ok","stale":false,"prev":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-13-13-176.3","next":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-13-13-176.5"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}