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FL S0946

Bill

Status

Failed

5/3/2013

Primary Sponsor

Criminal Justice

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Origin

Senate

2013 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Creates a new crime prohibiting knowingly transmitting or posting nude photographs or videos with personal identifying information to social media or websites with the purpose of harassing the depicted person.

  • Establishes a third-degree felony for violations, with enhanced penalties of a second-degree felony when the offender is 18 or older and the victim was under 16 years old at the time the image was made.

  • Defines harassment as conduct directed at a specific person intended to cause substantial emotional distress that serves no legitimate purpose.

  • Requires courts to issue no-contact orders between convicted offenders and victims, with violations constituting a third-degree felony.

  • Establishes jurisdiction over offenses where any element of the crime or resulting harm to the victim occurs in Florida.

Legislative Description

Computer or Electronic Device Harassment

Last Action

Died in Appropriations Subcommittee on Criminal and Civil Justice

5/3/2013

Committee Referrals

Appropriations Subcommittee on Criminal and Civil Justice4/15/2013
Judiciary3/19/2013
Criminal Justice2/21/2013

Full Bill Text

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