GA State Legislature is reportedly ready to criminalize "upskirting" after a recent appeals decision
Posted by
Strongbad (aka Rambler14)
Jul 28 '16, 11:15
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The need for such legislative language has been expressed as a result of an incident that took place in a Houston County Publix three years ago where an employee was caught bending down and pointing his phone up a customer’s skirt in order to snap pictures. The Publix employee, Brandon Lee Gary, was arrested and charged with criminal invasion of privacy; however, the Georgia Court of Appeals recently reversed the conviction stating that what Gary did wasn’t “technically illegal” in reference to the meaning of the word “place” in the law delineating where Georgia’s citizens can expect to be free of surveillance. By the majority of the court’s opinion, the law does not guarantee privacy under the clothes of those who are out in public.
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