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  "attribution": "The Insurance Investigator's Playbook — theclaimsplaybook.net",
  "jurisdiction": "MS",
  "name": "Mississippi",
  "question": "Does recording a conversation in Mississippi require one party's consent or all parties' consent?",
  "rule": "one-party",
  "ruleLabel": "One-party consent",
  "commonlyClassifiedAs": "one-party consent",
  "commonLabelIsMisleading": false,
  "summary": "Mississippi is a one-party consent jurisdiction: a participant in the conversation may record it without telling the others.",
  "nuance": "Mississippi codifies its wiretap act inside the controlled-substances title, and the consent language sits in § 41-29-531, a section of exceptions to CIVIL liability rather than a standalone criminal eavesdropping provision. Subsection (e) is the one that governs a private party.",
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  "statute": "Miss. Code Ann. § 41-29-531",
  "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": "static",
    "statusLabel": "Published from a fixed edition — no live source exists to re-check",
    "verifiedOn": "2026-09-21",
    "sourceUrl": "https://archive.org/download/gov.ms.code.ann.2018/xml/gov.ms.code.ann.2018.title.41.xml",
    "sourcePublisher": "Public.Resource.Org, Mississippi Code Annotated 2018, hosted at the Internet Archive; the official Mississippi Code is on LexisNexis and is JavaScript-only",
    "sourceTier": "fixed-edition",
    "sourceEdition": "Mississippi Code Annotated, 2018 edition (Public.Resource.Org)",
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  "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/MS",
    "title": "Mississippi recording consent law",
    "publisher": "The Insurance Investigator's Playbook",
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    "citationText": "\"Mississippi recording consent law\", The Insurance Investigator's Playbook, https://theclaimsplaybook.net/law/recording-consent/MS",
    "citationMarkdown": "[Mississippi recording consent law](https://theclaimsplaybook.net/law/recording-consent/MS) — The Insurance Investigator's Playbook"
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