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Representative Clowney presents bill to prohibit nonconsensual tracking devices; survivor urges passage
Summary
Representative Clowney presented a bill to add nonconsensual placement or use of location-tracking devices to Arkansas’s harassment statute; a survivor testified she found a tracker under her car and urged lawmakers to act.
Representative Clowney introduced House Bill 1641 and called forward Erin Wadley, a constituent who said an abusive ex had placed a tracking device on her car. Wadley said she discovered the device after hearing a scraping noise and, when the device was removed, found it had been transmitting her location without her knowledge. She told the Judiciary Committee the incident propelled her to law school and to research the issue; she and the sponsor said Arkansas lacks a specific statute addressing nonconsensual placement of tracking…
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