Establishes that when an actor threatens to disseminate or publish a still or video image depicting such other person with one or more intimate parts exposed or engaging in sexual conduct with another person, including a still or video image created or altered by digitization, where such person may reasonably be identified from the still or video image itself or from information displayed in connection with the still or video image within the provisions of unlawful dissemination or publication of an intimate image.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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205
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE(Prefiled)
January 8, 2025
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Introduced by Sens. MARTINEZ, ADDABBO, ASHBY, BORRELLO, FERNANDEZ,
GALLIVAN, HELMING, MURRAY, PALUMBO -- read twice and ordered printed,
and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes
AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to a threat to share an inti-
mate image
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 245.15 of the penal law, as
2 amended by chapter 513 of the laws of 2023, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 1. A person is guilty of unlawful dissemination or publication of an
5 intimate image when:
6 (a) with intent to cause harm to the emotional, financial or physical
7 welfare of another person, they intentionally disseminate or publish a
8 still or video image or threaten to disseminate or publish a still or
9 video image depicting such other person, with one or more intimate parts
10 exposed or engaging in sexual conduct with another person, including
11 [an] a still or video image created or altered by digitization, where
12 such person may reasonably be identified from the still or video image
13 itself or from information displayed in connection with the still or
14 video image; and
15 (b) the actor knew or reasonably should have known that the person
16 depicted did not consent to such dissemination or publication, including
17 the dissemination or publication of [an] a still or video image taken
18 with the consent of the person depicted when such person had a reason-
19 able expectation that the still or video image would remain private,
20 regardless of whether the actor was present when such still or video
21 image was taken.
22 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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