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Committee approves substitute to reorganize voyeurism offenses and registry triggers
Summary
The committee adopted a substitute to House Bill 41,04 that recategorizes voyeurism/peeping offenses into three tiers with differing registry triggers and durations; sponsor said law enforcement views covert recording as a gateway to more serious offenses and the committee voted to report the substitute as due pass (6 ayes).
Representative Ford explained the committee substitute to House Bill 41,04 and said the measure breaks voyeurism/peeping offenses into three categories. He said the first category covers residential peeping (for example, looking through a bedroom window) and typically requires two convictions before registry placement. The second category covers covert recording or camera use in locations with a reasonable expectation of privacy (locker rooms, hotel rooms), which the sponsor said would trigger registration on a first offense. A third category covers covert recording in quasi‑public retail spaces and would generally require two convictions for registry placement.
"Law enforcement has been in touch with me and they said that they have seen a person that this is the gateway drug," Representative Ford said, arguing that early entry onto the registry could prevent escalation to groping or other offenses. He told the committee that registry durations would vary by category and that some offenses would lead to longer registry terms.
The committee adopted the committee substitute and reported the bill as due pass. The committee recorded a unanimous favorable report in the hearing with six ayes, and the bill will move forward in the legislative process.
