Bill Text: NJ A1586 | 2010-2011 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Prohibits access to police vehicle global positioning system.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-2)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2010-09-30 - Received in the Senate, Referred to Senate Law and Public Safety Committee [A1586 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2010-A1586-Introduced.html

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ASSEMBLY, No. 1586

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

214th LEGISLATURE

 

PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2010 SESSION

 

 

Sponsored by:

Assemblyman  FREDERICK SCALERA

District 36 (Bergen, Essex and Passaic)

Assemblyman  GORDON M. JOHNSON

District 37 (Bergen)

 

Co-Sponsored by:

Assemblymen Caputo, O'Scanlon, Assemblywoman Greenstein and Assemblyman Schroeder

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Prohibits access to police vehicle global positioning system.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative Counsel

  

An Act concerning the access to police vehicle global positioning systems and supplementing Title 2C of the New Jersey Statutes.

 

     Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:

 

     1. Except for a law enforcement officer working in an official capacity or by order of the court, no person shall knowingly intercept information as to the location of a police vehicle provided by a global positioning system installed in that police vehicle, or shall obtain possession of the record of a police vehicle's previous locations as provided by the global positioning system.  The provisions of this section shall not apply to a police dispatcher working in an official capacity, or to a county prosecutor or his designee, or the Attorney General or his designee acting in an official capacity during the course of an investigation. Any person who violates this section is guilty of a crime of the fourth degree.

     For the purpose of this act, "global positioning system" means a reporting technology that is monitored by a network of electronic navigation components in which a vehicle may be identified and tracked via satellite.

 

     2. This act shall take effect immediately.

 

 

STATEMENT

 

     This bill makes it a fourth degree crime for a person, who is not a law enforcement officer or under order by a court, to knowingly intercept information as to the location of a police vehicle provided by a global positioning system or to obtain possession of a record of the police vehicle's previous locations as provided by the global positioning system. A fourth degree crime is punishable by up to 18 months imprisonment, a fine of up to $10,000, or both.