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      "category": "Safety",
      "title": "[Unverified - being checked] Miss. Code 97-29-61: Voyeurism: viewing into private areas",
      "summary": "[Unverified - being checked] Miss. Code 97-29-61(1)(b): viewing, by any means including a camera or drone, the interior of a bedroom, bathroom, changing room, spa or any area where the occupant has a reasonable expectation of privacy, without consent, for a lewd purpose, is a felony.",
      "body": "Miss. Code 97-29-61(1)(b): viewing, by any means including a camera or drone, the interior of a bedroom, bathroom, changing room, spa or any area where the occupant has a reasonable expectation of privacy, without consent, for a lewd purpose, is a felony.\n\nWhat Mississippi Legislature (bill text) actually says:\n\n“Any person who looks through a window, hole or opening, or otherwise views by means of any instrumentality, including, but not limited to, a periscope, telescope, binoculars, drones, camera, motion-picture camera, camcorder or mobile phone, into the interior of a bedroom, bathroom, changing room, fitting room, dressing room, spa, massage room or therapy room or tanning booth, or the interior of any other area in which the occupant has a reasonable expectation of privacy, with the intent to invade the privacy of a person or persons inside and without the consent or knowledge of every person present, for the lewd, licentious and indecent purpose of spying upon the occupant or occupants thereof, shall be guilty of a felony.”\n\nNote: Text comes from the Legislature's own bill document, which prints the Code section; check the Code for later amendments.",
      "source_type": "official",
      "source_link": "https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2015/html/SB/2001-2099/SB2022SG.htm",
      "last_verified": "2026-10-18",
      "reliability": "VERIFIED RULE",
      "source_tier": "A",
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      "evidence_quote": "Any person who looks through a window, hole or opening, or otherwise views by means of any instrumentality, including, but not limited to, a periscope, telescope, binoculars, drones, camera, motion-picture camera, camcorder or mobile phone, into the interior of a bedroom, bathroom, changing room, fitting room, dressing room, spa, massage room or therapy room or tanning booth, or the interior of any other area in which the occupant has a reasonable expectation of privacy, with the intent to invade the privacy of a person or persons inside and without the consent or knowledge of every person present, for the lewd, licentious and indecent purpose of spying upon the occupant or occupants thereof, shall be guilty of a felony.",
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      "subject": "Miss. Code 97-29-61",
      "topic": "Voyeurism: viewing into private areas",
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      "category": "Safety",
      "title": "[Unverified - being checked] Miss. Code 97-29-63: Secret recording: penalty",
      "summary": "[Unverified - being checked] Miss. Code 97-29-63(2)(a): an offender over 21 is punished by a fine of $5,000, up to five years in the Department of Corrections, or both.",
      "body": "Miss. Code 97-29-63(2)(a): an offender over 21 is punished by a fine of $5,000, up to five years in the Department of Corrections, or both.\n\nWhat Mississippi Legislature (bill text) actually says:\n\n“a person who was over the age of twenty-one (21) at the time of the offense who is convicted of a violation of subsection (1) of this section shall be punished by a fine of Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000.00) or by imprisonment of not more than five (5) years in the custody of the Department of Corrections, or both.”\n\nNote: Penalty as printed in the 2015 bill (SB 2022, as sent to the Governor).",
      "source_type": "official",
      "source_link": "https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2015/html/SB/2001-2099/SB2022SG.htm",
      "last_verified": "2026-10-18",
      "reliability": "VERIFIED RULE",
      "source_tier": "A",
      "source_publisher": "Mississippi Legislature (bill text)",
      "evidence_quote": "a person who was over the age of twenty-one (21) at the time of the offense who is convicted of a violation of subsection (1) of this section shall be punished by a fine of Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000.00) or by imprisonment of not more than five (5) years in the custody of the Department of Corrections, or both.",
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      "subject": "Miss. Code 97-29-63",
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      "category": "Safety",
      "title": "[Unverified - being checked] Miss. Code 97-29-103: Legal test for obscenity",
      "summary": "[Unverified - being checked] Miss. Code 97-29-103(1): material is obscene if, to the average person under contemporary community standards, taken as a whole it appeals to the prurient interest, it lacks serious literary, artistic, political or scientific value, and it depicts sexual conduct in a patently offensive way (intercourse, masturbation, excretory acts or lewd exhibition of the genitals, bestiality, sadomasochistic acts).",
      "body": "Miss. Code 97-29-103(1): material is obscene if, to the average person under contemporary community standards, taken as a whole it appeals to the prurient interest, it lacks serious literary, artistic, political or scientific value, and it depicts sexual conduct in a patently offensive way (intercourse, masturbation, excretory acts or lewd exhibition of the genitals, bestiality, sadomasochistic acts).\n\nWhat Mississippi Legislature (bill text) actually says:\n\n“Material or performance is obscene if: (a) To the average person, applying contemporary community standards, taken as a whole, it appeals to the prurient interest, that is, a lustful, erotic, shameful or morbid interest in nudity, sex or excretion; and (b) The material taken as a whole lacks serious literary, artistic, political or scientific value; and (c) The material depicts or describes in a patently offensive way, sexual conduct specifically defined in subparagraphs (i) through (v) below: (i) Acts of sexual intercourse, heterosexual or homosexual, normal or perverted, actual or simulated; (ii) Acts of masturbation; (iii) Acts involving excretory functions or lewd exhibition of the genitals; (iv) Acts of bestiality or the fondling of sex organs of animals; or (v) Sexual acts of flagellation, torture or other violence indicating a sadomasochistic sexual relationship.”\n\nNote: Existing text reproduced in a 2020 introduced bill; the bill changes only 97-29-103(4)-(5).",
      "source_type": "official",
      "source_link": "https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2020/html/HB/1100-1199/HB1119IN.htm",
      "last_verified": "2026-10-18",
      "reliability": "VERIFIED RULE",
      "source_tier": "A",
      "source_publisher": "Mississippi Legislature (bill text)",
      "evidence_quote": "Material or performance is obscene if: (a) To the average person, applying contemporary community standards, taken as a whole, it appeals to the prurient interest, that is, a lustful, erotic, shameful or morbid interest in nudity, sex or excretion; and (b) The material taken as a whole lacks serious literary, artistic, political or scientific value; and (c) The material depicts or describes in a patently offensive way, sexual conduct specifically defined in subparagraphs (i) through (v) below: (i) Acts of sexual intercourse, heterosexual or homosexual, normal or perverted, actual or simulated; (ii) Acts of masturbation; (iii) Acts involving excretory functions or lewd exhibition of the genitals; (iv) Acts of bestiality or the fondling of sex organs of animals; or (v) Sexual acts of flagellation, torture or other violence indicating a sadomasochistic sexual relationship.",
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      "category": "Safety",
      "title": "[Unverified - being checked] Miss. Code 41-29-531: Wiretap act exemption for a party to the communication",
      "summary": "[Unverified - being checked] Miss. Code 41-29-531(e): the wiretap article does not apply to a person not acting under color of law who intercepts a wire, oral or other communication if the person is a party to it or one of the parties has given prior consent, unless it is intercepted to commit a criminal or tortious act.",
      "body": "Miss. Code 41-29-531(e): the wiretap article does not apply to a person not acting under color of law who intercepts a wire, oral or other communication if the person is a party to it or one of the parties has given prior consent, unless it is intercepted to commit a criminal or tortious act.\n\nWhat Mississippi Legislature (bill text) actually says:\n\n“A person not acting under color of law who intercepts a wire, oral or other communication if the person is a party to the communication, or if one (1) of the parties to the communication has given prior consent to the interception unless the communication is intercepted for the purpose of committing any criminal or tortious act in violation of the Constitution or laws of the United States or of this state, or for the purpose of committing any other injurious act.”\n\nNote: The bill 'brings forward' this section without change, so the printed text is the section as it stood then. A creator who records their own shoot call is a party; recording others' conversations without being a party is not covered.",
      "source_type": "official",
      "source_link": "https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2024/html/HB/0500-0599/HB0593IN.htm",
      "last_verified": "2026-10-18",
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      "source_tier": "A",
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      "evidence_quote": "A person not acting under color of law who intercepts a wire, oral or other communication if the person is a party to the communication, or if one (1) of the parties to the communication has given prior consent to the interception unless the communication is intercepted for the purpose of committing any criminal or tortious act in violation of the Constitution or laws of the United States or of this state, or for the purpose of committing any other injurious act.",
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      "category": "Safety",
      "title": "[Unverified - being checked] Mississippi Code Title 97, chapter 29: No separate state licence or registration for adult video production",
      "summary": "[Unverified - being checked] The statutes read (97-29-61, -63, -101, -103, 97-5-33) regulate voyeurism, obscenity and child exploitation; none creates a state licence or record-keeping regime for producing lawful adult video.",
      "body": "The statutes read (97-29-61, -63, -101, -103, 97-5-33) regulate voyeurism, obscenity and child exploitation; none creates a state licence or record-keeping regime for producing lawful adult video.\n\nWhat Mississippi Legislature (bill text) actually says:\n\n“Material or performance is obscene if: (a) To the average person, applying contemporary community standards, taken as a whole, it appeals to the prurient interest, that is, a lustful, erotic, shameful or morbid interest in nudity, sex or excretion; and (b) The material taken as a whole lacks serious literary, artistic, political or scientific value; and (c) The material depicts or describes in a patently offensive way, sexual conduct specifically defined in subparagraphs (i) through (v) below: (i) Acts of sexual intercourse, heterosexual or homosexual, normal or perverted, actual or simulated; (ii) Acts of masturbation; (iii) Acts involving excretory functions or lewd exhibition of the genitals;”\n\nNote: ABSENCE RECORD (inferred from an index/listing or page that does not mention it, not from operative text). Index searched: Bill documents on billstatus.ls.state.ms.us reproducing 97-29-61, 97-29-63, 97-29-101, 97-29-103, 97-5-31 and 97-5-33 (no licensing section among them); Title 97 chapter 29 index on the LexisNexis host could not be opened.",
      "source_type": "official",
      "source_link": "https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2020/html/HB/1100-1199/HB1119IN.htm",
      "last_verified": "2026-10-18",
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      "category": "Safety",
      "title": "[Unverified - being checked] Mississippi: statutory code index",
      "summary": "[Unverified - being checked] The Mississippi Secretary of State provides official access to the unannotated Mississippi Code of 1972 on its Mississippi Law publication page.",
      "body": "The Mississippi Secretary of State provides official access to the unannotated Mississippi Code of 1972 on its Mississippi Law publication page.\n\nWhat Mississippi Secretary of State actually says:\n\n“MISSISSIPPI CODE 1972\nThe Secretary of State’s searchable Unannotated Mississippi Code is a link to information provided by LexisNexis Publishing, the official publisher of the Mississippi Code.”\n\nNote: Anchor record for Mississippi official code access via Secretary of State.",
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      "evidence_quote": "MISSISSIPPI CODE 1972\nThe Secretary of State’s searchable Unannotated Mississippi Code is a link to information provided by LexisNexis Publishing, the official publisher of the Mississippi Code.",
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