STATE OF NEW YORK
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6340
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
March 11, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. SANDERS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes
AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to conducting unlawful
surveillance by use of a drone
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 250.45 of the penal law is amended by adding a new
2 subdivision 6 to read as follows:
3 6. Without the knowledge or consent of a person, such person inten-
4 tionally uses or permits the utilization of a device to surreptitiously
5 view, broadcast, or record another person, by means of aerial imaging
6 technology, at a place and time when a person has a reasonable expecta-
7 tion of privacy.
8 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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