Prosecutor Brizzi backed legislation, passed by the Indiana General Assembly, that strengthened the state's identity theft law. Previous, the state needed to prove that a person had the intent to harm or defraud another person before the defendant could be convicted. The bill changed the definition of identity theft to inlcude intent to assume another person's identity or hold oneself out as another person.
The bill also expanded the definition of information covered under the law to include one's address, place of employment, employer ID number and mther's maiden name. Further, another provision of a bill allows a judge, upon conviction, to issue a court order stating that the victim had been a victim of a crime of deception. That order could then be used by the victim ot correct his or her credit history.