New Hampshire

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New Hampshire licenses private investigators and agencies through the Commissioner of Safety under RSA chapter 106-F, which has not been amended since it was enacted in 2019. Since 2023 the State has made repeat and child-related violations of its surveillance privacy law felonies and enacted a consumer data privacy law that took effect January 1, 2025.

Full New Hampshire page: every change, its sources, and what has not changed (3 entries).

  • Consumer data privacy law takes effect

    SB 255 (2024), Laws 2024, ch. 5, amended by HB 1220, ch. 229 (RSA 507-H)

    Gives consumers rights to access, correct, delete, and opt out of the sale of personal data held by businesses that process data of at least 35,000 New Hampshire consumers, or at least 10,000 while deriving over 25% of revenue from selling personal data…

  • Violation of privacy involving a minor becomes a felony

    HB 1260 (2024), Laws 2024, ch. 71

    Adds RSA 644:9, VII: violating the device surveillance, viewing, or curtilage provisions of the privacy law when a reasonable person knows or should know the person entitled to privacy is under 18 is a class B felony, and a repeat conviction a class A felony.

  • Repeat violations of privacy become a felony

    HB 97 (2023), Laws 2023, ch. 179

    Makes a second or subsequent conviction under RSA 644:9, I to III-a, which cover device surveillance of private places and private body parts, nonconsensual dissemination of sexual recordings, and voyeuristic viewing, a class B felony (644:9, VI). The…

Officer Certification Tracker

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Forensic Science Tracker

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Last updated October 18, 2026Source: United States Council for Law & Investigation