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Battle against Meth dealers now has
new weapons thanks to July 1 legislation
Life may get tougher for drug dealers and sex offenders now that new Senate-influenced laws have taken effect.
Indiana’s battle against homemade Methamphetamine will enter an aggressive phase with Senate Enrolled Act 520. This new law creates a six-county pilot project to electronically track sales of over-the-counter drugs used to make Meth. It also develops an on-line registry of Meth lab locations seized by law enforcement, helping officials identify dangerous patterns.
Since the making of Meth creates risk of explosions, the new law now mirrors federal standards, allowing police to share information about life-threatening danger to everyone in the vicinity of a suspected lab.
The new Meth law is one of five anti-crime measures that became law Sunday, July 1. The others include:
- House Enrolled Act 1386: This guarantees a 30-year sentence if a child molestation victim is under 12. It also expands and renames Indiana’s “Sex Offender Registry” to include those convicted of murder and voluntary manslaughter. Sex offenders will be easier to track than ever thanks to provisions requiring them to give vehicle descriptions and plate numbers to authorities
- House Enrolled Act 1306: Success of the missing children “Amber alert” system will now be applied to all missing persons, thanks to this new law inspired by the tragedy involving Indiana resident Molly Datillo. The law requires police treat all missing persons cases with the same urgency as missing children cases.
- House Enrolled Act 1381: This law ensures harsher penalties on child neglect cases involving confinement and/or abandonment.
- House Enrolled Act 1387 and Senate Enrolled Act 108: These measures outlaw bestiality and strengthen animal cruelty statutes, particularly when used to threaten, intimidate, coerce, harass or terrorize a family or household member.
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