Interference with Privacy (surreptitious observation and recording)
MN Interference with Privacy
Other · Communications
Criminalizes peeping into homes and other private places and surreptitiously installing or using devices to observe, photograph, record, or broadcast people there, including recording someone's intimate parts without consent in bathrooms, locker rooms, hotel rooms, and similar places. Penalties increase for repeat offenders and offenses involving minors.
- Where
- Minnesota
- Citation
- Minn. Stat. 609.746, subd. 1
- Status
- In force
- Enforced by
- Criminal prosecution
- People can sue
- No
- Penalties
- Gross misdemeanor for most peeping and hidden-device offenses; misdemeanor for up-skirt style recording; felony (up to two years and $5,000, or four years for certain offenses against minors by adults more than 36 months older) for repeat offenses or offenses against minors (subd. 1(a)-(i)).
- Applies to
- Any person who peeps into, or surreptitiously installs or uses observation or recording devices aimed at, dwellings, hotel rooms, tanning booths, bathrooms, locker and changing rooms, or other places with a reasonable expectation of privacy (609.746, subd. 1)
Practices it requires
- Do not surreptitiously install or use devices to observe, photograph, record, or broadcast people in dwellings, hotel sleeping rooms, tanning booths, bathrooms, locker or changing rooms, or other places with a reasonable expectation of privacy, or record intimate parts without consent.Minn. Stat. 609.746, subd. 1(b), (d)-(f)
Sources
Checked against these sources on 2026-09-25 by research agent (Claude), primary sources.
Unverified: Other subdivisions of 609.746 (for example, interference with privacy of communications or telephone records, if any) were not read. | Enactment and amendment dates not verified.
Research reference, not legal advice.