H792 - Privacy/Protection From Revenge Postings (SL 2015-250)

Overview: S.L. 2015-250 makes the following changes:

• Creates a criminal offense and a civil cause of action for knowingly disclosing with the intent to cause certain harms certain images of intimate parts or depicting sexual conduct in which there is a reasonable expectation of privacy.
• Requires the Joint Legislative Oversight Committee on Justice and Public Safety to study improper disclosure of images of people superimposed onto other images exposing intimate parts or depicting sexual conduct.
• Creates three new criminal offenses related to exposure of private parts on private premises.

This act became effective December 1, 2015, and applies to offenses committed on or after that date and to actions initiated on or after that date.