{"id":2015,"date":"2010-07-06T01:17:48","date_gmt":"2010-07-06T08:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/?p=2015"},"modified":"2010-07-06T01:17:48","modified_gmt":"2010-07-06T08:17:48","slug":"new-law-cruise-ship-security-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=2015","title":{"rendered":"New Law for Cruise Ship Security"},"content":{"rendered":"

America is getting tough about crime on the high seas. Last week, a bill that requires cruise ships to tighten security and report crimes was passed in the Senate<\/a> after Congress<\/a> voted 416-4 in favor. It now needs only the signature of President Obama<\/a> to become law.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>When something like this is public, the first reaction is that it’s in response to a growing problem, and the second is that the industry \u2014 whatever industry it is \u2014 is being regulated.<\/p>\n

What’s important to know about the situation is this:<\/p>\n

\u2022 The bill was drafted in consultation with the cruise-ship industry
\n\u2022 It applies to all ships that dock at U.S. ports
\n\u2022 Many of the bill’s requirements are already in place on cruise ships
\n\u2022 Cruise lines endorse anything that makes passengers safer, because the fallout from negative incidents is more damaging than having to comply
\n\u2022 Numbers of crimes should always be taken in proper context\u2026i.e., compared to crimes in other venues.<\/p>\n

Once the bill passes, ships must have peepholes on doors, victim information packets, rails at least 42 inches high and, for new ships, security latched and time-sensitive key technology.<\/p>\n

Cruise-ship officials must report all incidents to the FBI<\/a> or the Coast Guard<\/a>, even if the incident took place at sea, and must log all incidents and report a homicide, kidnapping, assault or disappearance of a U.S. national to the FBI as soon as possible. They must also carry rape kits and appropriate medication, and provide passengers confidential access to 24-hour sexual assault lines.<\/p>\n

It’s called the Cruise Vessel Security and Safety Act<\/a>, and the only real question about it is this one: Why did four members of Congress vote against it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

America is getting tough about crime on the high seas. Last week, a bill that requires cruise ships to tighten security and report crimes was passed in the Senate after Congress voted 416-4 in favor. It now needs only the signature of President Obama to become law. When something like this is public, the first… Continue reading New Law for Cruise Ship Security<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,19,15],"tags":[238,239,86,35,240],"class_list":["post-2015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cruise-industry-news","category-ships","category-stories","tag-crime","tag-cruise-ship-security","tag-cruise-ships","tag-cruises","tag-victims","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2015\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}