AL SJR29

Alabama Senate Joint Resolution encouraging the President to prioritize sextortion and child exploitation by naming it the number one domestic issue facing American families in the State of the Union address

From October 2021 to March 2023, FBI and Homeland Security received over 13,000 reports of online financial sextortion of minors involving at least 12,600 victims, primarily boys, resulting in at least 20 suicides

Sextortion defined as offenders coercing minors to create and send sexually explicit images or video, then threatening to release the material unless more is produced

References Alabama's recent legislation: Act 2025-302 expanding the definition of "sexual extortion" to include coercion, and Act 2025-386 limiting student internet access on public school property to age-appropriate websites

Non-binding resolution sponsored by Senator Stutts; first read January 29, 2026