Sexting Laws in West Virginia
Passed April 13, 2013 (effective 90 days later) (H.B. 2357) – “Any minor who intentionally possesses, creates, produces, distributes, presents, transmits, posts, exchanges, or otherwise disseminates a visual portrayal of another minor posing in an inappropriate sexual manner or who distributes, presents, transmits, posts, exchanges, or otherwise disseminates a visual portrayal of himself or herself […]
Sexting Laws in Wisconsin
There is no sexting law in Wisconsin as of July 2022. However, other laws below may be indirectly or directly implicated. Revenge porn law: https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2013/related/acts/243.pdf
Sexting Laws in Wyoming
There is no sexting law in Wyoming as of July 2022. However, other laws may be indirectly or directly implicated. Revenge porn law (2021): https://wyoleg.gov/Legislation/2021/HB0085 AN ACT relating to crimes and offenses; creating an offense for the nonconsensual dissemination of an intimate image; specifying elements and penalties of the offense; providing definitions; providing exemptions; and […]
Sexting Laws in Alabama
No specific sexting law as of July 2022. “Transmitting obscene material to a child by computer” (a) A person is guilty of transmitting obscene material to a child if the person transmits, by means of any computer communication system allowing the input, output, examination, or transfer of computer programs from one computer to another, material […]
Sexting Laws in Alaska
No specific sexting law as of July 2022. Revenge porn could fall under § 11.61.120 (harassment in the second degree): “(a) A person commits the crime of harassment in the second degree if, with intent to harass or annoy another person, that person… 6) publishes or distributes electronic or printed photographs, pictures, or films that […]
Sexting Laws in Arizona
8-309. Unlawful use of an electronic communication device by a minor; classification; definitions A. It is unlawful for a juvenile to intentionally or knowingly use an electronic communication device to transmit or display a visual depiction of a minor that depicts explicit sexual material. B. It is unlawful for a juvenile to intentionally or knowingly […]
Sexting Laws in Arkansas
AR Code § 5-27-609 (2016) (a) As used in this section: (1) “Nudity” means a: (A) Showing of the human male or female genitals, pubic area, or buttocks with less than a fully opaque covering; (B) Showing of the female breast with less than fully opaque covering of any portion of the female breast below […]
Sexting Laws in California
No sexting specific sexting law as of July, 2022. Specific statutes concerning child pornography would apply (CA penal code 311, 311.3, 288.2) Law is described as a sexting law but sounds more like revenge porn in schools. Signed into law on September 21, 2016 “This bill would include engaging in an act of cyber sexual […]
Sexting Laws in Colorado
Colorado passed a sexting law in 2017 (CO Rev Stat § 18-7-109 [2017]). (Bill: https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2017A/bills/sl/2017a_sl_390.pdf) (1) A juvenile commits the offense of posting a private image by a juvenile if he or she, through digital or electronic means: (a) Knowingly distributes, displays, or publishes to the view of another person a sexually explicit image of […]
Sexting Laws in Connecticut
CT Gen Stat § 53a-196h (2012) (a)(1) No person who is thirteen years of age or older but under eighteen years of age may knowingly possess any visual depiction of child pornography that the subject of such visual depiction knowingly and voluntarily transmitted by means of an electronic communication device to such person and in […]
