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Montana

Everyone in the conversation must consent.

All parties must be notified. Montana's rule is framed as notice rather than consent, which is not the same thing.

As of .

Rule
All-party consent
Statute
Mont. Code § 45-8-213

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.

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