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      "category": "Safety",
      "title": "[Unverified - being checked] CGS 53a-187 / 53a-189a: Video without audio",
      "summary": "[Unverified - being checked] Connecticut's eavesdropping definitions cover only overhearing or recording of conversations and telephone communications; silent video is handled by the voyeurism statute (53a-189a), not by a separate recording statute.",
      "body": "Connecticut's eavesdropping definitions cover only overhearing or recording of conversations and telephone communications; silent video is handled by the voyeurism statute (53a-189a), not by a separate recording statute.\n\nWhat Connecticut General Assembly (Connecticut General Statutes) actually says:\n\n“Sec. 53a-189a. Voyeurism: Class D or C felony.”\n\nNote: ABSENCE RECORD (inferred from an index/listing, not from operative text). Index searched: cga.ct.gov chapter 952 table of contents around 53a-187 to 53a-189c; 53a-187 definitions (wiretapping, mechanical overhearing).",
      "source_type": "official",
      "source_link": "https://www.cga.ct.gov/current/pub/chap_952.htm",
      "last_verified": "2026-10-17",
      "reliability": "CREATOR STRATEGY",
      "source_tier": "A",
      "source_publisher": "Connecticut General Assembly (Connecticut General Statutes)",
      "evidence_quote": "Sec. 53a-189a. Voyeurism: Class D or C felony.",
      "volatility": "medium",
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      "subject": "CGS 53a-187 / 53a-189a",
      "topic": "Video without audio",
      "applies_to_country": "US",
      "applies_to_scope": "CT",
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      "id": "learn_r7910_connecticut_recording_consent_one_party_or_two_party_cal_anchorsite",
      "category": "Safety",
      "title": "[Unverified - being checked] Connecticut: statutory code index",
      "summary": "[Unverified - being checked] Connecticut's statutes are published on the official Legislative Information site at www.cga.ct.gov under a codes index page listing Title 53a as the Penal Code.",
      "body": "Connecticut's statutes are published on the official Legislative Information site at www.cga.ct.gov under a codes index page listing Title 53a as the Penal Code.\n\nWhat Connecticut General Assembly actually says:\n\n“TITLE 53a PENAL CODE”\n\nNote: Anchor record. The page heading 'TITLE 53a PENAL CODE' is the verbatim evidence of the official statutes index.",
      "source_type": "official",
      "source_link": "https://www.cga.ct.gov/current/pub/title_53a.htm",
      "last_verified": "2026-10-18",
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      "source_tier": "A",
      "source_publisher": "Connecticut General Assembly",
      "evidence_quote": "TITLE 53a PENAL CODE",
      "volatility": "",
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      "id": "learn_r7910_connecticut_recording_consent_one_party_or_two_party_ct_statutes_anchor",
      "category": "Safety",
      "title": "[Unverified - being checked] Connecticut: statutory code index",
      "summary": "[Unverified - being checked] Connecticut's general statutes are published on the official General Assembly site at cga.ct.gov listing titles including Title 54 on Criminal Procedure.",
      "body": "Connecticut's general statutes are published on the official General Assembly site at cga.ct.gov listing titles including Title 54 on Criminal Procedure.\n\nWhat Connecticut General Assembly actually says:\n\n“GENERAL STATUTES OF CONNECTICUT”\n\nNote: Anchor record for Connecticut statutory index.",
      "source_type": "official",
      "source_link": "https://www.cga.ct.gov/current/pub/titles.htm",
      "last_verified": "2026-10-18",
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      "evidence_quote": "GENERAL STATUTES OF CONNECTICUT",
      "volatility": "low",
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      "id": "learn_r7910_connecticut_recording_consent_one_party_or_two_party_ct_wiretap_remedies",
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      "title": "[Unverified - being checked] Connecticut: civil remedies for wiretap violations",
      "summary": "[Unverified - being checked] Connecticut law provides a civil cause of action for interception, disclosure, or use of wire communications in violation of the chapter, entitling the intercepted person to actual damages but not less than liquidated damages computed at one hundred dollars per day or one thousand dollars, whichever is higher, plus punitive damages and attorney's fees.",
      "body": "Connecticut law provides a civil cause of action for interception, disclosure, or use of wire communications in violation of the chapter, entitling the intercepted person to actual damages but not less than liquidated damages computed at one hundred dollars per day or one thousand dollars, whichever is higher, plus punitive damages and attorney's fees.\n\nWhat Connecticut General Assembly actually says:\n\n“Any person whose wire communication is intercepted, disclosed or used in violation of this chapter or of sections 53a-187 to 53a-189, inclusive, shall (1) have a civil cause of action against any person who intercepts, discloses or uses, or procures any other person to intercept, disclose or use, such communication, and (2) be entitled to recover from any such person actual damages but not less than liquidated damages computed at the rate of one hundred dollars per day for each day of violation or one thousand dollars, whichever is higher; punitive damages; and a reasonable attorney's fee and other litigation costs reasonably incurred.”\n\nNote: Statutory civil remedies and penalties for unlawful interception under Conn. Gen. Stat. Sec. 54-41r.",
      "source_type": "official",
      "source_link": "https://www.cga.ct.gov/current/pub/chap_959a.htm",
      "last_verified": "2026-10-18",
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      "source_publisher": "Connecticut General Assembly",
      "evidence_quote": "Any person whose wire communication is intercepted, disclosed or used in violation of this chapter or of sections 53a-187 to 53a-189, inclusive, shall (1) have a civil cause of action against any person who intercepts, discloses or uses, or procures any other person to intercept, disclose or use, such communication, and (2) be entitled to recover from any such person actual damages but not less than liquidated damages computed at the rate of one hundred dollars per day for each day of violation or one thousand dollars, whichever is higher; punitive damages; and a reasonable attorney's fee and other litigation costs reasonably incurred.",
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