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Re:Judge rules Utah law banning undercover farm filming is u... by downandout on Saturday July 08, 2017 @02:16AM (#14724364)
Right, but what I was referring to was this:

The Utah Legislature approved a bill in 2012 that made it a class B misdemeanor to trespass on private livestock or poultry operations and record sound or images without the owner's permission.

So this particular law seems like a solution without a problem, given that trespassing for any reason is already illegal.

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Re:Judge rules Utah law banning undercover farm filming is u... by code_duck on Saturday July 08, 2017 @09:47AM (#14725387)
In the statute, actually they specifically list reasons that make your presence a trespass.

https://le.utah.gov/xcode/Title76/Chapter6/76-6-S206.html?v=...

Entering property for just any reason doesn't count as trespass... you need to have some sort of malicious intent, and stay despite being reasonably warned (including by signs or a fence) that your presence is not welcome.

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Re:Judge rules Utah law banning undercover farm filming is u... by mercer on Saturday July 08, 2017 @02:41AM (#14724425)
If i understand correctly it's not that it wasn't illegal before, rather it wasn't a class B misdemeanor. I'm not a lawyer though.
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