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Mon Jul 25, 2016, 11:57 AM Jul 2016

Georgia Appeals Court Says 'Upskirting' Not Against the Law

Source: Associated Press

Georgia Appeals Court Says 'Upskirting' Not Against the Law

By KATE BRUMBACK, ASSOCIATED PRESS ATLANTA — Jul 25, 2016, 12:29 PM ET

A man admitted he surreptitiously took cellphone video up a woman's skirt while she shopped at a grocery store, but a Georgia court said he didn't break the law.

A divided Georgia Court of Appeals this month tossed out the conviction of former grocery store employee Brandon Lee Gary, who recorded videos up a woman's skirt — known as "upskirting" — while she shopped. The 6-3 majority opinion said Gary's behavior, while reprehensible, doesn't violate the state's invasion of privacy law, under which he was prosecuted.

In a ruling issued July 15, Judge Elizabeth Branch said it is "regrettable that no law currently exists which criminalizes Gary's reprehensible conduct."

"Unfortunately, there is a gap in Georgia's criminal statutory scheme, in that our law does not reach all of the disturbing conduct that has been made possible by ever-advancing technology."

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