New penalties for "Upskirting" move forward

MADISON - State lawmakers move closer to outlawing `upskirting' in Wisconsin.

An Assembly committee unanimously voted Thursday to make the act a crime. Upskirting is photographing or videotaping a person's genitals, buttocks or breasts without his or her consent.

It would be a Class I felony under the bill.

Full story: WJFW

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