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Committee backs bill requiring online marketplaces to report suspected sales of stolen goods
Summary
Senate Bill 70, intended to curb organized retail crime by requiring online marketplaces to report suspicious seller activity to law enforcement and to adopt proactive anti-fencing measures, passed the House Business Affairs and Labor Committee 12-1 and will go to the Committee of the Whole.
The House Business Affairs and Labor Committee approved Senate Bill 70, a measure aimed at reducing organized retail crime (ORC) by requiring online marketplaces to establish policies to detect and report suspected sales of stolen goods, by a 12-1 vote. Sponsors said the bill will standardize cooperation between law enforcement, retailers and online platforms to disrupt fencing of stolen merchandise.
"Organized retail crime involves the coordinated and increasingly violent theft of large quantities of merchandise from retailers," Representative Amagast, a bill sponsor, told the committee. He said criminal fencing increasingly uses online marketplaces to resell…
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