This thread is related to our current Regional Security Reform, and the necessary amendments to Criminal Code shall be drafted here.

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Quick once-over:

1. Crimes

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(3) Espionage shall be defined as an act of or attempt to obtain information that is confidential or not made publicly available for use by oneself or an entity one represents. Distribution of private information that originates in official South Pacific discussion areas, excluding private messages, without the express written permission of the relevant officials or institutions shall be considered Espionage.
a. The Chair of the Assembly shall be the relevant official for information from private discussions of the Assembly.
b. The Council on Regional Security shall be the relevant institution for information from private discussions of the Council.
c. The High Court shall be the relevant institution for information from private discussions of the High Court.
d. The Cabinet shall be the relevant institution for all other private information that originates in official South Pacific discussion areas.

For b, replace CRS with CSI.

OR, how about changing this to general language. Each institution shall decide on the release of its own private discussions; otherwise, security-relevant info is decided upon by CSI, and anything left over by Cabinet.

3. Parole

(1) After serving at least one year of a ban from the region and/or the regional forum, convicts may apply for parole to a parole board.
a. Said parole board shall consist of the senior most member of the Council on Regional Security, the Chief Justice of the High Court, and the Chair of the Assembly.
b. The parole board may decide to recommend parole to convicts, provided a majority of its members support this motion; this decision should consider the security of the region and the genuine willingness of the convict to reform their behavior.
c. If parole is granted, the regional and/or forum ban shall be revoked and the individual shall be allowed to reside in The South Pacific.

CRS -> CSI. This section might warrant revision generally, but that'd be out of scope here.

4. Prohibited Regions and Organizations

I'd just replace CRS -> CSI in this entire thing, though I think with the modified proscription act, we don't necessarily need this section anymore anyway

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Changing to general language is something I'll propose in a separate amendment. Otherwise, just replacing CRS->CSI in the entire thing and we should be good to go.

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With Articles 3 and 4 likely to be repealed soon, obviously they wouldn't carry over.

On the Espionage provision, how about something like this (warning, very rough first draft):

(3) Espionage shall be defined as an act of or attempt to obtain information that is confidential or not made publicly available for use by oneself or an entity one represents. Distribution of private information that originates in official South Pacific discussion areas, excluding private messages, without the express written permission of the owners of that information, shall be considered Espionage.

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[b]X. Confidentiality

(1) By default, the institution in which a private discussion or private information originated shall be considered the owner of that information.

(2) Barring other restrictions or requirements imposed by law, the owner of information shall be free to transfer its ownership to another institution, release it to a wider circle of recipients, or release it to the public.

(3) The release of information relevant to regional security must always be approved by the Council on Security and Intelligence.

(4) Any private discussions or information whose ownership for the purposes of this article cannot be unambiguously determined will be considered to be owned by the Council on Security and Intelligence if it is relevant to regional security, and the Cabinet as a whole otherwise.

(5) The Chair of the Assembly shall be the arbiter of any information owned by the Assembly.

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