Invasion of privacy, penalty
This law is about secretly taking pictures or videos of people without their permission. It is against the law to photograph or film someone who is naked or partly naked in a place where they expect privacy. It is also against the law to take pictures up or under someone's clothing to see their body or underwear. This is normally a lower-level crime, but it becomes a more serious crime if the person shares the image with others, if more than one person was secretly recorded, or if the person has been found guilty of this before.
Classifications stated in the statute. Actual outcomes vary.
565.252. Invasion of privacy, . — 1. A person commits the of invasion of privacy if he or she :
(1) Photographs, films, videotapes, produces, or otherwise creates an image of another person, without the person's , while the person is in a state of and is in a place where one would have a reasonable expectation of privacy; or
(2) Photographs, films, videotapes, produces, or otherwise creates an image of another person under or through the clothing worn by that other person for the purpose of viewing the body of or the undergarments worn by that other person without that person's consent.
2. Invasion of privacy is a unless:
(1) A person who creates an image in violation of this section the image to another or transmits the image in a manner that allows access to that image via computer;
(2) A person or permits the by any means, to another person, of a videotape, photograph, or film obtained in violation of this section;
(3) More than one person is viewed, photographed, filmed or videotaped during the same ; or
(4) The offense was committed by a person who has previously been of invasion of privacy
3. shall be in the same manner required by the of section 558.021.
4. As used in this section, "same course of conduct" means more than one person has been viewed, photographed, filmed, or videotaped under the same or similar circumstances one scheme or course of conduct, whether at the same or different times.
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Source & history notes
(L. 2002 S.B. 969, et al., A.L. 2014 S.B. 491) Effective 1-01-17
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