SB183 • 2026

Creating the crimes of interference with a security camera in a correctional facility and aggravated interference with a security camera in a correctional facility and providing criminal penalties therefor.

Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor
Last action: 2026-04-10
Official status: Died in Committee
Effective date: Not listed

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Creating the crimes of interference with a security camera in a correctional facility and aggravated interference with a security camera in a correctional facility and providing criminal penalties therefor.

What This Bill Does

Creating the crimes of interference with a security camera in a correctional facility and aggravated interference with a security camera in a correctional facility and providing criminal penalties therefor.

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Bill History

2026-04-10 Senate
Died in Committee
2025-02-05 Senate
Referred to Senate Committee on Judiciary
2025-02-04 Senate
Introduced

Official Summary Text

Creating the crimes of interference with a security camera in a correctional facility and aggravated interference with a security camera in a correctional facility and providing criminal penalties therefor.

Current Bill Text

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Session of 2025
SENATE BILL No. 183
By Committee on Judiciary
2-4
AN ACT concerning crimes, punishment and criminal procedure; relating
to crimes involving government functions; creating the crimes of
interference with a security camera in a correctional facility and
aggravated interference with a security camera in a correctional facility
and providing criminal penalties therefor.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas:
Section 1. (a) Interference with a security camera in a correctional
facility is intentionally covering a security camera in a correctional facility
without authority from the correctional facility.
(b) Aggravated interference with a security camera in a correctional
facility is intentionally:
(1) Removing, damaging or rendering inoperable a security camera in
a correctional facility without authority from the correctional facility; or
(2) covering, removing, damaging or rendering inoperable a security
camera in a correctional facility during a riot at the correctional facility
without authority from the correctional facility.
(c) (1) Interference with a security camera in a correctional facility is
a class A nonperson misdemeanor; and
(2) aggravated interference with a security camera in a correctional
facility as defined in:
(A) Subsection (b)(1) is a severity level 9, nonperson felony; and
(B) subsection (b)(2) is a severity level 6, nonperson felony.
(d) As used in this section:
(1) "Correctional facility" means a:
(A) Jail or correctional facility operated by a city, county or
consolidated law enforcement agency;
(B) correctional institution as defined in K.S.A. 75-5202, and
amendments thereto; or
(C) juvenile detention facility as defined in K.S.A. 38-2302, and
amendments thereto; and
(2) "security camera" means an analog or digital photographic or
video camera or other device capable of recording or transmitting a
photograph, motion picture or other digital image.
(e) This section shall be a part of and supplemental to the Kansas
criminal code.
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Sec. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its
publication in the statute book.
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