Virginia Revenge Porn Bill Advances After Explicit Videos of Democrat Candidate Published Online

Published on February 1, 2024

Legislation that would broaden Virginia’s revenge porn law by adding a new category relating to “sexual” images was advanced in the Virginia House of Delegates on Jan. 31. The bill, HB 926 (pdf) is sponsored by Democrat Del. Irene Shin and was advanced to a full committee by the Virginia House Courts of Justice Criminal Subcommittee in an 8-0 vote on Wednesday. Virginia’s current law on the unlawful dissemination or sale of images pertains to images depicting a person who is either nude or in a state of undress, showing their genitals, pubic area, buttocks, or breasts. Under the law, it is a crime for any person to “maliciously” disseminate or sell nude or sexual images of another person with the intent to “coerce, harass, or intimidate.”...

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