HB527 Alabama 2022 Session

Summary

Primary Sponsor

Arnold Mooney Representative

Republican

Session

Regular Session 2022

Title

Crimes and offenses, criminal surveillance, crime further provided to include operation of unmanned aircraft system in manner to invade reasonable expectation of privacy, possession of unmanned aircraft system, certain persons prohibited from possession or operation under certain conditions, Secs. 13A-11-30, 13A-11-32 am'd.

Description

Existing law prohibits criminal surveillance, which is committed when a person intentionally engages in surveillance while trespassing in a private place.

This bill would further provide for that crime by prohibiting the use of an unmanned aircraft system to take photographs, video, or audio of another, without that individual's consent, in a manner that would invade that individual's reasonable expectation of privacy.

This bill would also prohibit an individual who is subject to the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act, or who has certain prior convictions related to theft, to operate or possess an unmanned aircraft system equipped in a manner to take photographs, video, or audio of another, and would provide criminal penalties for a violation.

Amendment 621 of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, as amended by Amendment 890, now appearing as Section 111.05 of the Official Recompilation of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, as amended, prohibits a general law whose purpose or effect would be to require a new or increased expenditure of local funds from becoming effective with regard to a local governmental entity without enactment by a 2/3 vote unless: it comes within one of a number of specified exceptions; it is approved by the affected entity; or the Legislature appropriates funds, or provides a local source of revenue, to the entity for the purpose.

The purpose or effect of this bill would be to require a new or increased expenditure of local funds within the meaning of the amendment. However, the bill does not require approval of a local governmental entity or enactment by a 2/3 vote to become effective because it comes within one of the specified exceptions contained in the amendment.

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Subjects

Crimes and Offenses