Peeping Tom and Lindsay Ann Burke bills pass
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PROVIDENCE – The General Assembly has approved legislation to close a loophole in the state’s “Peeping Tom” law and to require all school districts in the state to provide dating violence education for middle and high school students. The changes to the “Peeping Tom” law -- sponsored by Rep. Amy G. Rice, D-Portsmouth, Middletown, Newport – arose after a Middletown fitness club owner was charged with disorderly conduct for allegedly watching a woman shower at his gym. The charges were dropped because Rhode Island’s old law applied only when the accused “enters upon the property of another.” The legislation was altered after concerns raised in February at a House Judiciary Committee hearing that the bill not inadvertently apply to married couples or domestic partners. The Lindsay Ann Burke Act -- sponsored by Sen. Beatrice A. Lanzi and Rep. Eileen S. Naughton – is named after a 23-year-old North Kingstown woman who was murdered in September 2005. Burke’s former boyfriend, Gerardo E. Martinez, was sentenced in April to life without the possibility of parole after he was convicted for Burke’s murder -- the maximum penalty available in Rhode Island. The new legislation requires school districts to develop model dating violence policies and to address incidents of dating violence involving students. Approved by the General Assembly, both the Peeping Tom and Lindsay Ann Burke Act legislation now heads to the governor for his consideration. -- projo.com staff writer Kate Bramson 
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How can they mandate something else when they are level funding school aid. No more mandates without funding. Communities like Barrington that only receive less than 10% from the state to support their schools should just say the heck with it. It would be cheaper for them to refuse state aid and therefore not follow any mandates.
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