Final OK for 'revenge porn' bill

{span style=”font-size: 12px;”}Arizona lawmakers gave final approval Thursday to legislation designed to cut down on so-called “revenge porn.”{/span}

{span}HB 2561 is aimed at situations where couples who were intimate have taken photos of each other. Rep.{/span} {span}J.D. Mesnard{/span}{span}, R-Chandler, said that only becomes a problem if the relationship ends badly and one person puts naked pictures of the other on the Internet.{/span}

{span}A similar law passed last year was challenged by book publishers and the American Civil Liberties Union. They argued the definitions were so broad as to make criminals out of anyone who happens to not only publish a naked photo, but even in cases where a mother shows a picture of her baby to a neighbor.{/span}

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{span}Revisions to that law include new definitions of nudity, and that it is only a crime if the person publishing the photo does so with “intent to harm, harass, intimidate, threaten or coerce the depicted person.”{/span}

{span}It will be up to challengers to decide whether to continue their lawsuit after reviewing the revised law.{/span}

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