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Judicial Proceedings Committee holds bill to add visual surveillance to peace order remedies
Summary
The Judicial Proceedings Committee on Jan. 23 held Senate Bill 92 after members said the draft may not capture the conduct it intends to address; the bill would add intentional visual surveillance of a residence to the peace order statute and expand remedies to remove devices and stop surveillance.
Chair, Judicial Proceedings Committee, opened discussion on Senate Bill 92, saying the bill would expand the peace order statute to cover “intentional visual surveillance of areas of an individual's residence” where the individual has a reasonable expectation of privacy and to add remedies ordering removal or repositioning of surveillance devices within 15 days and a prohibition on further visual surveillance. The chair said there were no amendments in the voting packet.
The committee discussed whether the conduct the bill targets already falls under existing harassment provisions and whether the draft language would capture the activity committee members and witnesses described. The chair and other members said a prior work group had approved the bill’s general concept but that the current drafting “does not capture the actual activity that’s happening.” The chair proposed forming a work group to continue refining the language so the statute clearly subsumes the intended conduct under harassment or an equivalent definition.
After brief discussion, the committee voted to hold the bill for further drafting rather than advance it. The motion on the record was to hold SB 92 so counsel and the work group can revise the statutory language and return with clarified text or an amendment.
The committee did not adopt substantive amendments or take a final vote on the bill; the action recorded in the minutes is that SB 92 was held for further work.
