Tennessee panel advances bill to toll unlawful-photography statute and broaden victim remedies

Senate Bill 335, a measure to update Tennessee’s unlawful-photography law, advanced out of the Senate Judiciary Committee after victims described how a one‑year criminal statute of limitations prevented prosecutions.

The bill’s sponsor, Sen. Jon Yarbrough, told the panel the measure was brought to him by a group of women victimized by the same man and aims to “update our statute on unlawful photography, largely to accommodate changes to technology and some deficiencies in the law.” Victim Brooke Farrell said detectives told her a recovered file contained images of her but that the one‑year statute had run before investigators could identify her. “I was one month too late,” Farrell said,…