Sponsored by:
Senator PAUL A. SARLO
District 36 (Bergen, Essex and Passaic)
Senator JOHN A. GIRGENTI
District 35 (Bergen and Passaic)
SYNOPSIS
Prohibits access to police vehicle global positioning system.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As introduced.
An Act concerning 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.