[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] --- Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 16:03:16 -0600 From: Ben Masel <bmaselat_private> 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." _____________________________________ 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. ________________________________________ ben I am not currently Licensed to Practice in this State. ________________________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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