Amendment ASA1-AB276

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1997 - 1998 LEGISLATURE

ASSEMBLY SUBSTITUTE AMENDMENT 1, TO 1997 ASSEMBLY BILL 276

August 28, 1997 - Offered by Committee on Criminal Justice and Corrections.

AB276-ASA1,1,2 An Act to amend chapter 942 (title); and to create 942.08 of the statutes; relating to: criminal invasion of privacy and providing a penalty.

The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:

AB276-ASA1, s. 1 Section 1. Chapter 942 (title) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB276-ASA1,1,4 CHAPTER 942

AB276-ASA1,1,6 CRIMES AGAINST REPUTATIOn, Privacy AND CIVIL LIBERTIES

AB276-ASA1, s. 2 Section 2. 942.08 of the statutes is created to read:

AB276-ASA1,1,8 942.08 Invasion of privacy. (1) In this section:

AB276-ASA1,2,2 (a) "Nude or partially nude person" means any human being who has less than fully and opaquely covered genitals, pubic area or buttocks, any female human being who has less than a fully opaque covering over any portion of a breast below the top of the nipple, or any male human being with covered genitals in a discernibly turgid state.

AB276-ASA1,2,4 (b) "Private place" means a place where a person may reasonably expect to be safe from surveillance.

AB276-ASA1,2,8 (c) "Surveillance device" means any device, instrument, apparatus, implement, mechanism or contrivance used, designed to be used or primarily intended to be used to observe the activities of a person. "Surveillance device" includes a peephole or similar method of direct sight observation.

AB276-ASA1,2,12 (2) Whoever knowingly installs a surveillance device in any private place, or uses a surveillance device that has been installed in a private place, with the intent to observe any nude or partially nude person without the consent of the person observed is guilty of a Class A misdemeanor.

AB276-ASA1,2,13 (End)