Overview

• Marina del Pilar Ávila signed and submitted a penal reform initiative to the Baja California Congress following a public announcement in Tijuana.
• The proposal updates Penal Code Article 317/317 Ter to punish obtaining or sharing security information for criminal purposes with prison terms of up to eight years and monetary fines.
• It creates new crimes for intervening, manipulating, altering, or installing systems to compromise public videovigilance on roads or at facilities that provide public services.
• The draft adds aggravating factors that increase penalties, including for current or former public servants and for using equipment to intercept official security transmissions.
• Officials emphasized that lawful private use of home cameras is not targeted, citing the removal of more than 1,600 unknown cameras as the impetus for the measure.