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  "attribution": "The Insurance Investigator's Playbook — theclaimsplaybook.net",
  "jurisdiction": "AK",
  "name": "Alaska",
  "question": "Does recording a conversation in Alaska require one party's consent or all parties' consent?",
  "rule": "one-party",
  "ruleLabel": "One-party consent",
  "commonlyClassifiedAs": "one-party consent",
  "commonLabelIsMisleading": false,
  "summary": "Alaska is a one-party consent jurisdiction: a participant in the conversation may record it without telling the others.",
  "nuance": "The statute is oddly narrow: AS 42.20.310 bans using an eavesdropping device to hear or record an ORAL conversation, and a participant is not eavesdropping. Separately, Alaska's constitution has been read (State v. Glass) to require a warrant before law enforcement records a conversation with a participant's consent — a limit on the state, not on a private investigator.",
  "nuanceIsEditorial": true,
  "nuanceVerified": false,
  "casesCited": [
    {
      "name": "State v. Glass",
      "verdict": "verified",
      "citation": "583 P.2d 872",
      "allCitations": [
        "583 P.2d 872",
        "1978 Alas. LEXIS 695"
      ],
      "court": "Alaska Supreme Court",
      "year": 1978,
      "url": "https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/1290844/state-v-glass/",
      "holdingVerified": false
    }
  ],
  "caseLawVerified": true,
  "caseHoldingsVerified": false,
  "caseLawNote": "Each decision named in `nuance` was checked against a court record on CourtListener: it exists and carries the citation given. What the decision is said to HOLD is our reading and has not been verified.",
  "statute": "Alaska Stat. § 42.20.310",
  "federalFloor": {
    "statute": "18 U.S.C. § 2511(2)(d)",
    "rule": "one-party",
    "url": "https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2511",
    "note": "Federal law permits recording with one party's consent unless the recording is made to commit a crime or tort. Federal law is the FLOOR; a state may and many do require more. Where an interstate call touches two states with different rules, the safe assumption is the stricter one."
  },
  "verification": {
    "status": "verified",
    "statusLabel": "Verified against the government source",
    "verifiedOn": "2026-09-21",
    "sourceUrl": "https://www.akleg.gov/basis/statutes.asp?media=print&type=fetch&secStart=42.20.300",
    "sourcePublisher": "Alaska State Legislature (BASIS)",
    "sourceTier": "government",
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    "recheckCadence": "weekly",
    "consideredStaleAfter": "90 days",
    "methodUrl": "https://theclaimsplaybook.net/law/method"
  },
  "disclaimer": "Reference information, not legal advice. Statutes change and courts read them differently; confirm the current text with the linked primary source and counsel licensed in the jurisdiction before relying on it.",
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    "permalink": "https://theclaimsplaybook.net/law/recording-consent/AK",
    "title": "Alaska recording consent law",
    "publisher": "The Insurance Investigator's Playbook",
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    "citationText": "\"Alaska recording consent law\", The Insurance Investigator's Playbook, https://theclaimsplaybook.net/law/recording-consent/AK",
    "citationMarkdown": "[Alaska recording consent law](https://theclaimsplaybook.net/law/recording-consent/AK) — The Insurance Investigator's Playbook"
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