California Attorney General Calls For Changes In Cyber-Crime Law

Ian Wallach
www.wallachlegal.com

Today Kamela Harris released a 181 page report calling for changes in cyber-crime laws.  A link is here.  She apparently calls for a modification to the instructions on money laundering (seeking to remove the prosecutor's need to show deliberate hiding of wrongful funds), of which I am skeptical -- people don't need to be investigators or officers as to the origin of funds.  If someone runs a mini-market near a corner where drugs are sold, could selling a soda and being paid in drug proceeds subject that store owner to prosecution?  A.G. Harris also calls for longer prison sentences -- and there is no added deterrent effect afforded by such prolonged sentences, and California's prisons are terribly overburdened now, largely due to unnecessarily prolonged sentences.

The biggest problem will be the state handling this multi-national issue.  We don't have the money to fund overseas investigations, and that should be a federal, not state, function.