Friday, April 7, 2017

NYPD Supports Making ‘Revenge Porn’ a Crime Under City Council Bill

 
By Erin Durkin

The NYPD supports making it a crime to spread “revenge porn” — naked pictures or sexual images that are posted online to get back at an an ex.

“The Police Department supports the creation of criminal sanctions to hold perpetrators accountable,” NYPD legislative affairs director Oleg Chernyavsky testified at a City Council hearing on a bill that would make revenge porn a misdemeanor punishable by up to a year in jail.

It’s already illegal in New York state to secretly record sexual encounters — but it’s not a crime if explicit snaps are voluntarily shared with someone who later makes them public without the subject’s consent.

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Source: The New York Daily News (via The Empire Report) 

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