Privacy and Property Rights
- Increase penalties for fraud, identity theft, illegal tracking and illegal photographing; these crimes must be treated as harshly as robbery, burglary etc.; they threaten our security and our freedom. Update technology laws to penalize "new" intrusions (e.g., spyware, viruses); increase company responsibility for solutions - software companies, credit card, bank, internet providers.
- Insure private landowners, to the greatest extent possible; retain rights to use their property as they see fit.
- Require that proposed zoning changes, hearing dates and hearing locations be posted on the properties subject to change; review zoning and building permit rules and processes to make sure equal and open treatment for property owners.
- Review costs and practicality of HIPAA and other privacy laws
- No curfews for youth; review other laws in which youth are being unnecessarily restricted.
- No eminent domain for economic development
- Balance of security issues of surveillance (satellite and video) with privacy. Privacy retains special status.
Goal: Protect individual rights to property and privacy in a reasonable fashion
Reasons: Our rights to privacy are out of balance. We have certain areas in which financial institutions and the medical community spend millions of dollars explaining their policies with little impact and yet identity theft is at an all time high and property rights are more limited than ever.
"The free state offers what a police state denies - the privacy of the home, the dignity and peace of mind of the individual. That precious right to be let alone is violated once police enter our conversations." -William O. Douglas