Sexting Laws in Kentucky
There is no sexting law in Kentucky as of July 2022. However, the law below may be indirectly or directly implicated. Revenge Porn Law: 531.120 Distribution of sexually explicit images without consent.(1) A person is guilty of distribution of sexually explicit images without consent when:(a) He or she intentionally distributes to any third party private […]
Sexting Laws in Louisiana
For a first offense of possessing or transmitting indecent visual depictions of a minor, the offender will receive a minimum fine of $100 to a maximum of $250, incarcerated for up to ten days, or both. An exception to this provision is if they offender is placed on probation and performs two eight-hour days of […]
Sexting Laws in Maryland
There is no sexting law in Maryland as of July 2022. However, the law below may be indirectly or directly implicated. Proposed law (2021): HOUSE BILL 180 (https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2021RS/bills/hb/hb0180T.pdf) Juveniles – Sexting FOR the purpose of establishing a certain mitigating factor in a certain juvenile court proceeding against a child for a certain violation; requiring and […]
Sexting Laws in Massachusetts
No sexting law in Massachusetts as of July 2022. Proposed sexting law in Massachusetts: Bill H.4498 (proposed May, 2022): An Act relative to transmitting indecent visual depictions by teens and the unlaw [sic] distribution of explicit images. https://malegislature.gov/Bills/192/H4498 House docket 1517, H.1550 (filed January 2019): https://malegislature.gov/Bills/191/H1550.Html H.4370, https://www.masslive.com/news/2019/02/gov-charlie-baker-refiles-bill-to-address-sexting-and-revenge-porn.html Any person who is less than eighteen […]
Sexting Laws in Michigan
There is no sexting law in Michigan as of July 2022. However, the law below may be indirectly or directly implicated. Revenge Porn Law: http://www.legislature.mi.gov/documents/2015-2016/billenrolled/Senate/pdf/2015-SNB-0508.pdf
Sexting Laws in Minnesota
There is no sexting law in Minnesota as of July 2022. However, the laws below may be indirectly or directly implicated. Revenge Porn Law: https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=SF2713&version=2&session=ls89&session_year=2016&session_number=0 609.352 SOLICITATION OF CHILDREN TO ENGAGE IN SEXUAL CONDUCT; COMMUNICATION OF SEXUALLY EXPLICIT MATERIALS TO CHILDREN. Subdivision 1.Definitions. As used in this section: (a) “child” means a person 15 years […]
Sexting Laws in Mississippi
There is no specific sexting law in Mississippi as of July, 2022. Revenge porn law (Senate Bill 2121, July 1, 2021): AN ACT TO CRIMINALIZE THE DISCLOSURE WITHOUT CONSENT OF INTIMATE VISUAL MATERIAL; TO DEFINE TERMS; TO PROVIDE PENALTIES FOR THE CRIME; TO ENUMERATE CERTAIN DEFENSES; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES. BE IT ENACTED BY THE […]
Sexting Laws in Missouri
There is no specific sexting law in Missouri as of July, 2022. Revenge porn law (2018) Nonconsensual dissemination of private sexual images (https://house.mo.gov/billtracking/bills181/hlrbillspdf/5278S.03F.pdf) 2. A person commits the offense of nonconsensual dissemination of private sexual images if he or she: (1) Intentionally disseminates with the intent to harass, threaten, or coerce an image of another […]
Sexting Laws in Montana
There is no sexting specific law in Montana as of July, 2022. Revenge porn law: (2019) HB 192, update Privacy in Communications law: https://leg.mt.gov/bills/2019/billhtml/HB0192.htm Section 1. Section 45-8-213, MCA, is amended to read: “45-8-213. Privacy in communications. (1) Except as provided in 69-6-104, a person commits the offense of violating privacy in communications if the […]
Sexting Laws in Nebraska
28-813.01. Sexually explicit conduct; visual depiction; unlawful; penalty; affirmative defense; forfeiture of property. (1) It shall be unlawful for a person nineteen years of age or older to knowingly possess any visual depiction of sexually explicit conduct which has a child as one of its participants or portrayed observers. Violation of this subsection is a […]
