LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — A proposal on the Nevada Legislature would amend the state’s revenge porn legislation to incorporate computer-generated photographs.
Underneath present state legislation, sharing an intimate picture of one other particular person with out their consent — generally known as revenge porn — constitutes a Class D felony. The tier carries a possible jail sentence of 1-4 years and a superb.
The proposal from State Sens. Carrie Buck, John Ellison, Lisa Krasner, Jeff Stone and John Steinbeck, provides “certain photorealistic images, digital images, electronic images, computer images, computer-generated images and other pictorial representations” to the statute. All 5 sponsors are Republicans.
The state senators additionally wish to develop the present legislation to incorporate the sharing of a picture “created in a approach that might lead an affordable particular person to imagine it’s an precise depiction of the particular person depicted.”
The proposal didn’t have a scheduled listening to as of Tuesday.
Nevada lawmakers handed the so-called revenge porn legislation in 2015, making it against the law “to harass, harm or terrorize another person” when “[that] person electronically disseminates or sells an intimate image, which depicts the other person” with out their consent.
The 8 Information Now Investigators have reported how these charged with the felony typically have their circumstances lowered to lesser crimes with lesser penalties.
