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
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