DIGEST
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or proof or indicia of legislative intent. [R.S. 1:13(B) and 24:177(E)]
HB 175 Original 2024 Regular Session McMakin
Abstract: Provides relative to the elements of unlawful posting of criminal activity.
Present law provides that it shall be unlawful for a person who is either a principal or accessory to
a crime to obtain an image of the commission of the crime using any type of image recording device
and to transfer that image through any means of electronic communication.
Proposed law adds live-stream or video of the commission of the crime as additional items that are
unlawful to obtain or transfer.
Present law provides exceptions to this offense when the obtaining, use, or transference is by the
following:
(1)A telephone company, cable television company, or any of its affiliates, an Internet provider,
or commercial online service provider, or to the carrying, broadcasting, or performing of
related activities in providing telephone, cable television, Internet, or commercial online
services or in the production, exhibition, or presentation of an audiovisual work in any
medium, including but not limited to a motion picture or television program.
(2)A law enforcement officer pursuant to investigation of criminal activity.
(3)Any bona fide member of the news media broadcasting a news report through television,
cable television, or other telecommunication.
Proposed law adds the obtaining, use, or transference of live-stream or video to these exceptions.
Proposed law defines the term "live-stream".
(Amends R.S. 14:107.4(A) and (C)(1)-(4); Adds R.S. 14:107.4(F))