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 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 […]
Sexting Laws in Pennsylvania
§ 6321. Transmission of sexually explicit images by minor. Summary offense.–Except as provided in section 6312 (relating to sexual abuse of children), a minor commits a summary offense when the minor: (1) Knowingly transmits, distributes, publishes or disseminates an electronic communication containing a sexually explicit image of himself. (2) Knowingly possesses or knowingly views a […]
Sexting Laws in Rhode Island
§ 11-9-1.4. Minor electronically disseminating indecent material to another person — “Sexting” prohibited. (a) Definitions as used in this section: (1) “Minor” means any person not having reached eighteen (18) years of age; (2) “Computer” has the meaning given to that term in § 11-52-1; (3) “Telecommunication device” means an analog or digital electronic device which […]
Sexting Laws in Texas
Sec. 43.26. POSSESSION OR PROMOTION OF CHILD PORNOGRAPHY. (a) A person commits an offense if: (1) the person knowingly or intentionally possesses, or knowingly or intentionally accesses with intent to view, visual material that visually depicts a child younger than 18 years of age at the time the image of the child was made who […]
Sexting Laws in Washington
This act may be known and cited as the responsible teen communications act. The legislature finds that exchange of intimate images by minors is increasingly common, and that such actions may lead to harm and long-term consequences. The legislature intends to develop age–appropriate prevention and interventions to prevent harm and to hold accountable youth who […]
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 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 […]
