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Tennessee panel moves two bills to strengthen unlawful-photography penalties and toll statute of limitations
Summary
The House Criminal Justice Subcommittee voted to advance two bills aimed at tightening penalties for unlawful photography and extending the time victims have to bring criminal charges; victims gave testimony describing gaps in current law.
Representative Freeman pushed a bill to clarify and expand the unlawful-photography statute and toll the statute of limitations to the date of discovery, and the committee advanced a separate bill that raises penalties for certain unlawful photography to a felony level.
The measures matter because some victims of hidden-camera crimes discover recordings long after they were made, and current law can bar criminal charges filed after short statutory periods. Sponsors and victim witnesses said the bills close a gap in practice and give police and prosecutors a clearer path to charge offenders.
Representative Freeman, sponsor of House Bill 602, told the committee the bill “adds a definition of ‘disseminate’ to the unlawful-photography statute” and “tolls the statute of limitations to the date of discovery.” He…
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