This law sets a time limit for filing criminal charges related to secretly viewing, photographing, or filming someone. Charges must be filed within three years of when the viewing or recording happened. If the person did not know they were being recorded at the time, the three years starts from when they first find out it happened.
556.038. Time to . — the of section 556.036, either or prosecutions under sections 565.252 to 565.257 shall be within the following periods of limitation:
(1) Three years from the date the viewing, photographing or filming occurred; or
(2) If the person who was viewed, photographed or filmed did not realize at the time that he was being viewed, photographed or filmed, within three years of the time the person who was viewed or in the photograph or film first learns that he was viewed, photographed or filmed.
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Source & history notes
(L. 1995 H.B. 160 § 1 subsec. 4, A.L. 2014 S.B. 491) Transferred 2014; formerly 565.255; Effective 1-01-17
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