(WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- A proposed law in Indiana would make it a crime to track a person using a GPS device or other similar tracking apps.
The proposal comes after a woman named Millie Parke was tracked by her ex-boyfriend who put a GPS device in her car. He followed her to a gas station, where she was stabbed multiple times, including once in the heart.
She survived and Republican State Senator Liz Brown of Fort Wayne was surprised to learn that using a GPS device to track a person is not against the law in Indiana.
“It was a glaring and disturbing loophole in the law," she told CBS 4 in Indianapolis.
Her legislation has a long way to go. Brown said, “this is a big issue and it will only get bigger.”
Tracking a person in Illinois with GPS or a phone app is illegal.
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