Does NY’s Criminal ‘Revenge Porn’ Law Need Fixing?
A discussion of the recent decision out of Brooklyn criminal court, ‘People v. Marvel B.,’ and its relationship to the New York State Senate’s efforts to amend the state’s criminal “revenge porn” statute to criminalize the making of a threat to non-consensually disseminate/publish sexually explicit images.
November 27, 2024 at 09:58 AM
9 minute read
By Bonnie M. Baker
New York’s “revenge porn” law, Penal Law §245.15 (“Section 245.15”), criminalizes the intentional, nonconsensual dissemination or publication of a sexually explicit intimate image of another with intent to harm the emotional, financial or physical welfare of that other person. When signed into law by then-Governor Andrew Cuomo in 2019, Section 245.15 was hailed as a milestone, intended to address a growing phenomenon where individuals maliciously sought to “punish” ex-lovers and others by sharing intimate pictures and videos of them on porn sites and elsewhere.
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