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by E.Marquez
Thu Feb 05, 2015 10:55 am
Forum: 2015 Legislative Session
Topic: An Anti-SWATting Law?
Replies: 7
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Re: An Anti-SWATting Law?

On premise I agree with your position and though on this.
However, I do not wish to see yet another law written when there are laws already on the books to charge and convict with. Perhaps amend and add to a law that ups the punishment for a false call that results in serious bodily harm or death?
Id guess there is a civil remedy already in place should a person have been detained, arrested, shot based on a false allegation. ("There is a man with a gun pointing it everybody he is going to kill us all" but upon review of videotape and witness testimony it is revealed, the gun was never drawn nor any aggressive action observed at all)
Secondly, I believe it would be near impossible for a criminal conviction to take place, short of evidence presented that the person calling in the 911 call did so with premeditated malice and intention to deceive. The Caller could simply say later, "I felt threatened" "I thought he was going to kill us all" "I thought he was looking for targets" so I called 911

I would like to see those making the false allegations held criminally and civilly liable, I just don't have the background and experience to know the best, most viable way to do that.

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