HARTFORD, Conn. –The Senate passed a bill Wednesday that would make it a crime to electronically distribute an intimate image of a person with the intent to “harass, annoy, alarm or terrorize another person.”
The bill makes distribution of what some have referred to as “revenge porn” a class A misdemeanor punishable by up to one year in prison, a fine of up to $2,000, or both.
Sen. John Kissel, R-Enfield, said there’s a difference between a person who consents to be photographed or videotaped and voyeurism where an individual is recorded without their knowledge.
“They’re consenting with the very explicit understanding that this would not be distributed to third parties,” Kissel said. “That’s an important distinction and why this particular law is very important at this point in time to fill that gap that is absent in our criminal justice statutes.”
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