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DEAFDIGEST BLUE by SILENT NEWS – Sept. 17, 2000
Volume 5 Number 7 Barry Strassler, editor
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is a newspaper for the deaf, established in 1969 and published each month.
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DEALING WITH RELAY-CONVEYED HARASSING PHONE CALLS
There have been occasions when a hearing caller, with the assistance
of the TTY relay service, would harass the deaf TTY
user with life-threatening remarks. If this happens to you and if you
ask the TTY relay operator for the phone number of the hearing person,
you will not get it - because state regulations prohibit giving away such
information. There is a way to deal with it - save the tape; record the
date and the time and most important of all - the relay operator's ID number.
And then go to the police with the incriminating information. If
the police feels there are grounds for such investigation they can subpoena
the TTY relay data.
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