Lege Trend. Protect Critical Infrastructure from Protestors & From open Records

North Dakota Legislature is taking a 2 step legislative approach to protecting critical infrastructure:

• SB 2209 (ND | 2019) protects from open records disclosure information concerning critical infrastructure.
  • it does it by expanding the defintion of critical infrastructure to include coal, hazardous liquids, energy, feul supply, utilities, natural gas
  • it also adds to the already protect4ed security measures any documents related to disaster mitigation, preparation, response, vulnerability, or recovery, or for cybersecurity planning, mitigation, or threat
• SB 2204 (ND | 2019) makes tampering with or damaging critical infrastructure facility a felony

HPR | NEW BILLS TARGET PROTESTERS, FIRST AMENDMENT