09 March 2012

From the land of the free

From the legislature of the US state of Utah:

AGRICULTURAL OPERATION INTERFERENCE

2012 GENERAL SESSION

STATE OF UTAH

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This bill establishes the crime of agricultural operation interference ... ... ... [and] provides that a person is guilty of agricultural operation interference if the person, without the consent of the owner of the operation, records an image of, or sound from, an agricultural operation while on the property where the agricultural operation is located; and establishes penalties.

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2 comments:

Ray Girvan said...

The context is to criminalize taking undercover footage of farming operations: crooked farm lobby inventing laws to protect itself (see Utah Rep. Introduces Bill To Make Filming Farm Abuse A Major Crime, Praises Industry Donor “Friends” At Hearing).

Felix said...

Quite... :-(