A 804 New Jersey General Assembly · 2024-2025 Regular Session

Makes it a crime of the second degree to interfere with 9-1-1 public safety answering points.

This bill (A804) makes it a second-degree crime to intentionally disrupt, damage, or interfere with 9-1-1 public safety answering points (PSAPs), which are facilities that receive emergency calls and dispatch services. It directly targets individuals who unlawfully access or disrupt 9-1-1 systems, such as hackers causing outages. The law amends New Jersey’s computer crime statute (N.J.S.2C:20-25) to explicitly include PSAPs under the definition of "computer services" that cannot be impaired without authorization. Violations are punishable by 5-10 years in prison, and if the victim is a government agency (which PSAPs are), the sentence must include a parole-ineligible minimum term.
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Introduced Jan 9, 2024 Last action Jan 9, 2024
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Introduced in the Assembly, Referred to Assembly Public Safety and Preparedness Committee
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