Is it legal to record a phone call in Arizona?

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Yes — Arizona is a one-party consent state: if you are a party to the phone call, you may record it without the other party's consent. Arizona law makes it a class 5 felony to intentionally intercept a wire or electronic communication to which you are *not* a party without the consent of a sender or receiver — which means a party to the call is not covered by that prohibition . The statute's exemptions confirm this: interception of any wire, electronic, or oral communication is exempt when done "with the consent of a party to the communication" .

So recording a call you are participating in is legal, but secretly recording a call between other people — where no party consents — is a class 5 felony .

The remaining supplied sources address other topics (911 and radio recording admissibility, video recording of police, court recording, and telephone record privacy) and do not govern this question, so they are not relied on here.