The States of Missouri and Rhode Island have passed revenge porn legislation, bringing the number of states with such laws to forty.
The Missouri law was signed by Governor Eric Greitens last week just prior to his stepping down as part of a plea bargain. It is an ironic development since Greitens downfall began earlier this year when a woman accused Greitens of using intimate images to blackmail her.
Two years ago, Rhode Island’s first woman governor, Gina Raimondo, became the first governor to veto revenge porn legislation. This week she signed a revenge porn bill into law, after it changed to add a requirement that the victim be recognizable in the image and changed the prior intent requirement from intent to distribute to
[w]ith knowledge or with reckless disregard for the likelihood that the depicted person will suffer harm, or with the intent to harass, intimidate, threaten or coerce the depicted person.
The 10 Holdout States
The remaining states without any revenge porn laws are Indiana, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, New York, Ohio, South Carolina and Wyoming. If you live in those states, below are tweets to the Governor and legislative leadership in each state asking them why they have not passed a law and to their U.S. Senators urging them to sponsor the federal “ENOUGH Act”.
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