Florida Senate - 2012                                     SB 296
       
       
       
       By Senator Joyner
       
       
       
       
       18-00206-12                                            2012296__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to the offense of video voyeurism;
    3         amending s. 810.145, F.S.; increasing the penalty for
    4         conducting video voyeurism in a residential dwelling
    5         from a first-degree misdemeanor to a third-degree
    6         felony; defining the term “residential dwelling”;
    7         providing an effective date.
    8  
    9  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
   10  
   11         Section 1. Section 810.145, Florida Statutes, is amended to
   12  read:
   13         810.145 Video voyeurism.—
   14         (1) As used in this section, the term:
   15         (a) “Broadcast” means electronically transmitting a visual
   16  image with the intent that it be viewed by another person.
   17         (b) “Imaging device” means any mechanical, digital, or
   18  electronic viewing device; still camera; camcorder; motion
   19  picture camera; or any other instrument, equipment, or format
   20  capable of recording, storing, or transmitting visual images of
   21  another person.
   22         (c) “Place and time when a person has a reasonable
   23  expectation of privacy” means a place and time when a reasonable
   24  person would believe that he or she could fully disrobe in
   25  privacy, without being concerned that the person’s undressing
   26  was being viewed, recorded, or broadcasted by another,
   27  including, but not limited to, the interior of a bathroom,
   28  changing room, fitting room, dressing room, or tanning booth.
   29         (d) “Privately exposing the body” means exposing a sexual
   30  organ.
   31         (e) “Residential dwelling” means a building or conveyance
   32  of any kind which has a roof over it and is designed to be
   33  occupied by people lodging therein at night, regardless of
   34  whether the building or conveyance is temporary or permanent or
   35  mobile or immobile.
   36         (2) A person commits the offense of video voyeurism if that
   37  person:
   38         (a) For his or her own amusement, entertainment, sexual
   39  arousal, gratification, or profit, or for the purpose of
   40  degrading or abusing another person, intentionally uses or
   41  installs an imaging device to secretly view, broadcast, or
   42  record a person, without that person’s knowledge and consent,
   43  who is dressing, undressing, or privately exposing the body, at
   44  a place and time when that person has a reasonable expectation
   45  of privacy;
   46         (b) For the amusement, entertainment, sexual arousal,
   47  gratification, or profit of another, or on behalf of another,
   48  intentionally permits the use or installation of an imaging
   49  device to secretly view, broadcast, or record a person, without
   50  that person’s knowledge and consent, who is dressing,
   51  undressing, or privately exposing the body, at a place and time
   52  when that person has a reasonable expectation of privacy; or
   53         (c) For the amusement, entertainment, sexual arousal,
   54  gratification, or profit of oneself or another, or on behalf of
   55  oneself or another, intentionally uses an imaging device to
   56  secretly view, broadcast, or record under or through the
   57  clothing being worn by another person, without that person’s
   58  knowledge and consent, for the purpose of viewing the body of,
   59  or the undergarments worn by, that person.
   60         (3) A person commits the offense of video voyeurism
   61  dissemination if that person, knowing or having reason to
   62  believe that an image was created in a manner described in this
   63  section, intentionally disseminates, distributes, or transfers
   64  the image to another person for the purpose of amusement,
   65  entertainment, sexual arousal, gratification, or profit, or for
   66  the purpose of degrading or abusing another person.
   67         (4) A person commits the offense of commercial video
   68  voyeurism dissemination if that person:
   69         (a) Knowing or having reason to believe that an image was
   70  created in a manner described in this section, sells the image
   71  for consideration to another person; or
   72         (b) Having created the image in a manner described in this
   73  section, disseminates, distributes, or transfers the image to
   74  another person for that person to sell the image to others.
   75         (5) This section does not apply to any:
   76         (a) Law enforcement agency conducting surveillance for a
   77  law enforcement purpose;
   78         (b) Security system when a written notice is conspicuously
   79  posted on the premises stating that a video surveillance system
   80  has been installed for the purpose of security for the premises;
   81         (c) Video surveillance device that is installed in such a
   82  manner that the presence of the device is clearly and
   83  immediately obvious; or
   84         (d) Dissemination, distribution, or transfer of images
   85  subject to this section by a provider of an electronic
   86  communication service as defined in 18 U.S.C. s. 2510(15), or a
   87  provider of a remote computing service as defined in 18 U.S.C.
   88  s. 2711(2). For purposes of this section, the exceptions to the
   89  definition of “electronic communication” set forth in 18 U.S.C.
   90  s. 2510(12)(a), (b), (c), and (d) do not apply, but are included
   91  within the definition of the term.
   92         (6) Except as provided in subsections (7), and (8), and
   93  (9), a person who violates this section commits a misdemeanor of
   94  the first degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082 or s.
   95  775.083.
   96         (7) A person who violates this section and who has
   97  previously been convicted of or adjudicated delinquent for any
   98  violation of this section commits a felony of the third degree,
   99  punishable as provided in s. 775.082, s. 775.083, or s. 775.084.
  100         (8)(a) A person who is:
  101         1. Eighteen years of age or older who is responsible for
  102  the welfare of a child younger than 16 years of age, regardless
  103  of whether the person knows or has reason to know the age of the
  104  child, and who commits an offense under this section against
  105  that child;
  106         2. Eighteen years of age or older who is employed at a
  107  private school as defined in s. 1002.01; a school as defined in
  108  s. 1003.01; or a voluntary prekindergarten education program as
  109  described in s. 1002.53(3)(a), (b), or (c) and who commits an
  110  offense under this section against a student of the private
  111  school, school, or voluntary prekindergarten education program;
  112  or
  113         3. Twenty-four years of age or older who commits an offense
  114  under this section against a child younger than 16 years of age,
  115  regardless of whether the person knows or has reason to know the
  116  age of the child
  117  
  118  commits a felony of the third degree, punishable as provided in
  119  s. 775.082, s. 775.083, or s. 775.084.
  120         (b) A person who violates this subsection and who has
  121  previously been convicted of or adjudicated delinquent for any
  122  violation of this section commits a felony of the second degree,
  123  punishable as provided in s. 775.082, s. 775.083, or s. 775.084.
  124         (9) A person who commits the offense of video voyeurism
  125  within a residential dwelling commits a felony of the third
  126  degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082, s. 775.083, or s.
  127  775.084.
  128         (10)(9) For purposes of this section, a person has
  129  previously been convicted of or adjudicated delinquent for a
  130  violation of this section if the violation resulted in a
  131  conviction that was sentenced separately, or an adjudication of
  132  delinquency entered separately, prior to the current offense.
  133         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2012.