With the popularity of Pokémon Go continuing to increase with more than 100 million downloads, a California State Assemblywoman wants to limit registered sex offenders from using the App.
California Assemblywoman Ling Ling Chang, Diamond Bar, has amended her Assembly Bill 2682 so it would ban register sex offenders from using apps such as Pokemon Go with the intend of preying on kids.
The game uses GPS and asks for permission to access information from your phone such as location data, photos, media files and contacts—it’s been suggested that the location data is the only thing you need to allow to play Pokemon Go.
Chang, who is an avid fan of the App, highlighted the APP is easy for criminals and predators to attact people to certain locations—many who are minors.
Here is a look at the Bill:
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST
Existing law authorizes the operation of an autonomous vehicle on public roads for testing purposes by a driver who possesses the proper class of license for the type of vehicle being operated if specified requirements are satisfied. Existing law requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to adopt regulations no later than January 1, 2015, setting forth requirements for the submission of evidence of insurance, surety bond, or self-insurance, and for the submission and approval of an application to operate an autonomous vehicle.
This bill would require the department, upon the development of a model state policy on autonomous vehicles or operational guidance related to the deployment and operation of autonomous vehicles by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, to hold public hearings on the model policy and consider, to the extent authorized by other law, conforming department regulations with that policy.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 290.96 is added to the Penal Code, to read:
290.96.
A person required to register under Section 290 who uses an interactive video game to encourage another user of the interactive video game who is a minor to physically travel to a specified location for the purpose of meeting the minor shall be punished by a fine not exceeding five thousand dollars ($5,000), by imprisonment in a state prison not exceeding one year, or by both the fine and imprisonment.
SEC. 2.
No reimbursement is required by this act pursuant to Section 6 of Article XIII B of the California Constitution because the only costs that may be incurred by a local agency or school district will be incurred because this act creates a new crime or infraction, eliminates a crime or infraction, or changes the penalty for a crime or infraction, within the meaning of Section 17556 of the Government Code, or changes the definition of a crime within the meaning of Section 6 of Article XIII B of the California Constitution.
SEC. 3.
This act is an urgency statute necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety within the meaning of Article IV of the Constitution and shall go into immediate effect. The facts constituting the necessity are:
SECTION 1.Section 38755 is added to the Vehicle Code, to read:
38755.
Upon the development of a model state policy on autonomous vehicles or operational guidance related to the deployment and operation of autonomous vehicles by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the department shall hold public hearings on the model policy and shall consider, to the extent authorized by other law, conforming department regulations with the model policy and operational guidance.
