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Michigan

It depends on the conversation.

The statute reads as all-party; the leading state appellate decision reads it as permitting a participant to record. Treat it as unsettled.

No attorney has reviewed this page. It states the rule as we read it and names the statute so you can read it yourself.

As of .

Rule
Depends on the medium
Statute
Mich. Comp. Laws § 750.539c

What Scribe does about it

Scribe does not decide which rule applies to your conversation, and it will not tell you that a recording is permitted. What it does is make the recording obvious while it is happening: it starts only when you tap record, the screen says it is recording, and the app announces it out loud at the start — so the people in the room can object before there is anything to object to.

In an all-party jurisdiction that announcement is how consent gets asked for. In a one-party jurisdiction it is how you avoid the argument later.