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Committee broadens swatting statute to target calls that trigger law-enforcement dispatches
5851396 · February 4, 2025
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Summary
The committee approved language expanding the state’s swatting offense to include conduct that causes dispatch of law-enforcement officers and creates fear in the target; the change clarifies how the crime can be prosecuted when false reports provoke a tactical response.
The Senate Corrections and Criminal Law Committee unanimously advanced an expansion of Indiana’s swatting statute to make clear that a false report that causes law-enforcement dispatch — and that results in fear, terror or intimidation in the targeted person — falls within the existing offense.
Chair Gerry…
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