FC: Wisconsin may ban disabling spycams -- except for hidden sexcams

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

[Of course if "current law" really does provide "various penalties for 
damaging or misappropriating" someone else's property, why -- except to pad 
the resumes of legislators -- do we need *new* laws? --Declan]

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Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 16:03:16 -0600
From: Ben Masel <bmasel () tds net>
Subject: (Wisconsin) AB 435 Tampering with a security device or 
surveillance device and providing penalties

Assembly Criminal Justice Commitee hearing Wed 1 PM
                                    Room 417 N State Capitol

Analysis from Legislative Reference Bureau

"Current law provides various penalties for damaging or misappropriating
the property of another.  This bill prohibits a person from tampering
with a security device or surveillance device that is owned by another
by disconnecting, altering, dismantling, damaging, covering up,
removing, or destroying the device without the consent of the owner and
with the intent either to cause the device to become inoperative or to
interfere with or circumvent the operation of the device.

A person who violates the prohibition created in the bill may be fined
not more than $500 or imprisoned for not more than 30 days or both,
except that a person may be fined not more than $10,000 or imprisoned
for not more than five years or both if the person violates the
prohibition with the intent to make it less likely that another felony
will be detected or that a person who commits another felony will be
identified with the felony.  The bill also provides that a person
charged with violating the prohibition created in the bill has a defense
to the charge if he or she tampered with a surveillance device that is
installed or used with the intent to observe any nude or partially nude
person without the consent of the person observed."
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Full text:
http://folio.legis.state.wi.us/cgi-bin/om_isapi.dll?clientID=88503&infobase=billhist.nfo&j1=AB435&jump=AB435

So it would seem there is no Defence if the surveillance device is
installed for any other illegal purpose. Are these guys as dumb as they
look?

Criminal Justice Committee members:
Representatives Suder, chairperson, Gundrum, vice chairperson, Bies, J.
Fitzgerald,  Jeskewitz, F. Lasee, Loeffelholz, Owens, Staskunas, Wood,
Young, Colón, Sherman, and Boyle.


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ben
I am not currently Licensed to Practice in this State.
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