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NY S00256
Bill
Status
1/5/2011
Primary Sponsor
James Alesi
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AI Summary
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Creates a new crime of surreptitious surveillance as a class B misdemeanor for intentionally observing another person dressing, undressing, or their intimate parts without consent using unaided eyes or imaging devices in places where reasonable privacy is expected.
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Applies to conduct done for personal amusement, entertainment, degradation, abuse of another, sexual arousal, sexual gratification, or for no legitimate purpose.
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Establishes a rebuttable presumption that surveillance in bedrooms, changing rooms, bathrooms, showers, restrooms, or guest rooms in hotels, motels, spas, or inns is for no legitimate purpose.
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Defines "imaging device" to include cameras, digital devices, cellular phones, and any instrument capable of recording, storing, or transmitting visual images.
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Takes effect November 1st following enactment.
Legislative Description
Defines the crime of surreptitious surveillance, a class B misdemeanor, when a person, for purposes of his or her own amusement, or for the purpose of degrading another person, or for his or her own sexual arousal, or for no legitimate purpose, surreptitiously observes by means of the unaided eye or an imaging device, intimate parts of an other person without that person's consent and at a place and time when such other person has a reasonable expectation of privacy; includes a rebuttable presumption that such surveillance under certain conditions is for no legitimate purpose; makes such offense a class B misdemeanor.
Last Action
REFERRED TO CODES
1/5/2011