exposed. Moreover, the Commission recommended to the Chairman of Korea Communications Commission and the Minister for Public Administration and Security to provide, in addition to CCTV personal video information protection guidelines, a preemptive regulatory mechanism such as a prior registration system that can regulate the rapid proliferation of CCTVs and the intrusion of the public sector by CCTVs in the private facilities; to prohibit the installation of CCTVs mounted with voice recording functions; and to formulate a security system guideline to prevent the intrusion of the public sector by CCTVs in the private sector and the leakage of CCTV content on the Internet. 15) Recommendation to Revise the Act on Drug Treatment of Sex Offenders With respect to the Act on Drug Treatment of Sex Offenders, the Commission made a recommendation revise the law on December 27, 2010 as follows: firstly, the law should include voluntary consent requirements pertaining to the offender for drug treatment based on the grounds that the drug treatment temporarily incapacitates part of physical functions of those subject to the treatment and side-effects resulting from drug-taking are also expected; that the drug treatment is effective only when the person subject to the treatment expresses the voluntary consent to treatment and is closely involved in the treatment program; and that unless voluntary consent is secured, the possibility that the person will take counterbalancing medication cannot be entirely ruled out. Secondly, regulations whereby the drug treatment order is applied to sex offenders who committed a sex crime before the enforcement of the Act, and where drug treatment is applied to those who committed a sex crime and were placed under punishment or under the application of medical treatment and custody or protective custody at the time of enforcement of the Act, violate the principle banning retroactive punishment and they have the potential to violate physical integrity, so it is desirable to remove those regulations. Thirdly, imposing such criminal punishment is excessive. Hence, when it is deemed necessary to boost the Chapter 1. Improvement of Laws, Regulations, Policies and Practices 41

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