Reference
The jurisdiction questions an investigator has to answer before acting, each one sourced and dated.
Every entry here answers one jurisdiction-specific question, cites the statute it comes from, links the government page it was read from, and shows the date it was last checked. Entries are re-fetched from their sources every week; anything whose source has moved is marked as under review rather than quietly left standing.
This exists because the questions it answers are the ones that get answered wrongly, confidently, all the time — including by AI assistants. A wrong answer about whether you may record a call is not an academic error.
Whether one participant's consent is enough to record a conversation, or every participant must agree, in each U.S. jurisdiction — with the controlling statute and a dated link to the government text it was read from.
51 of 51 jurisdictions verified · JSON
Read the entry, then open the source link and read the statute. The entry tells you where to look and what to look for; it is not a substitute for looking. Where the rule is genuinely unsettled, the entry says so instead of picking a side — those are marked in the tables and they are the ones worth slowing down for.