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GA - Subcommittee approves bill to restrict limits on photographing children

Original Article 02/15/2011 By Walter C. Jones ATLANTA -- A subcommittee gave its approval Tuesday to a bill that would allow people to take photographs of children without a parent?s permission as long as they?re not on the state?s sex-offender registry. The bill is designed to correct an oversight in last year?s sweeping sex-offender law that made it a crime for anyone other than the parents to photograph a child, even a grandparent or someone who captured the image of a child in the background. However, the Georgia Parent Teacher Association testified against the bill and vows to try continue trying to stop it. The subcommittee of the House Judiciary Non-Civil Committee voted unanimously to pass to the full committee House Bill 162 (PDF) sponsored by Rep...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Offender Issues on February 16, 2011 (boomark / email).