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  A Governor Is Charged With ‘Invasion of Privacy,’ but What Does That Mean?
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AuthorMitch Smith
News DateTuesday, February 27, 2018 03:00:00 AM UTC0:0
DescriptionLong before a governor’s sex scandal was dominating headlines in Missouri, long before cellphones could even take pictures, a tanning salon owner in Buffalo, a rural community in the state, was caught using a hidden camera to film dozens of unclothed women.

When the authorities discovered those recordings in 1994, prosecutors were stuck. The state had no law against secret videotaping.

Motivated by the case, Missouri legislators made invasion of privacy a felony crime the next year. But the statute was seldom used and went unnoticed by many for years. Then last week, St. Louis grand jurors indicted Gov. Eric Greitens on the charge, sending it suddenly into the public consciousness as part of a sex scandal that has upended the state.
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