Kiama MP Gareth Ward says he will work closely with Premier Barry O'Farrell to create legislation to nullify the Administrative Tribunal's Decision on Nowra's CCTV cameras.
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"This was a decision made on common law not on commonsense," Mr Ward said.
"The law should reflect the community's standards and I don't believe this judgment reflects what the community strongly and deeply believes.
"Judges are meant to interpret the law and apply community standards and this judgment should reflect that."
Writing in today's blog on the Illawarra Mercury website, Mr Ward said the decision had resulted in a "serious precedent".
"Barry O'Farrell wants to fix this situation and I will work with the Premier to introduce a Private Member's Bill to correct this decision," Mr Ward said. "It will seek to address the questions at law raised by the ADT and their contention that crime prevention is different from law enforcement.
"Essentially, I will be looking at the operations of the Local Government Act and the Privacy and Personal Information Protection Act 1998 and how they have been unable to allow Shoalhaven City Council to collect footage through CCTV."
Mr Ward said he would not be apologising to anti-CCTV campaigner Adam Bonner.
"The ADT has said that an apology to Mr Bonner is warranted in view of the invasion of his privacy. Mr Bonner has said that my name should be added to the list of those who should present an apology to him for the actions I have taken in seeing the cameras installed. He won't be getting one."
