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Judiciary committee advances bill to require felony voyeurism offenders to register regardless of victim age
Summary
The House Judiciary Committee voted to advance Senate File 122, which would add felony voyeurism to the state sex-offender registry for all victims, after a victim described years of hidden recordings and urged the change.
The House Judiciary Committee voted to advance Senate File 122, a bill to require people convicted of felony voyeurism to register on the state sex-offender registry regardless of the victim’s age.
Senator Ed Cooper, Senate District 20, told the committee the measure simply removes the phrase “if the victim was a minor” from current law, extending the registration requirement to all victims of felony-level voyeurism. Cooper said the change applies only to those whose conduct rises to felony voyeurism and not to ordinary private consensual conduct.
A victim who identified herself as Melanie told the committee she had been targeted while working: "Police…
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