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NY S00256
Bill
Status
2/14/2011
Primary Sponsor
George Maziarz
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AI Summary
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Creates new crime of surreptitious surveillance as a class B misdemeanor for intentionally and secretly observing a person dressing, undressing, or their intimate parts without consent in places where privacy is reasonably expected.
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Applies to observation by unaided eye or imaging device when done for amusement, entertainment, degradation, abuse, sexual arousal, sexual gratification, or for no legitimate purpose.
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Establishes rebuttable presumption that surveillance in bedrooms, changing rooms, bathrooms, showers, or guest rooms in hotels, motels, inns, or spas is for no legitimate purpose.
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Adds "imaging device" definition to include cameras, cellular phones, and any mechanical, digital or electronic device capable of recording, storing or transmitting visual images.
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Takes effect on November 1 of the year 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
COMMITTED TO RULES
6/21/2012