GoFuckYourself.com - Adult Webmaster Forum - Brevard, Florida sheriff backs bill limiting on nude-photo posting

http://www.floridatoday.com/article/...nclick_check=1

Quote:

A friend alerted her to the nude photos first ? he sent her a link to a site that was displaying them. He suggested that she might want to talk to her ex-boyfriend. The photos were posted on a pornography site and included information that identified the 22-year-old Brevard County resident.

At first she was in shock. Then she felt angry, desperate, and most of all helpless.

?There?s really no telling how many people have seen it,? said the woman, whom FLORIDA TODAY is not identifying to protect her privacy.

Posting consensually obtained nude photographs is not illegal, but a bill proposed to the state legislature by the Brevard County Sheriff?s Office would make it a third-degree felony to do so without the person?s written consent.

The Brevard woman didn?t want to talk about how the photos were taken. BCSO Agent Dan Ogden said the woman ? who was 18 at the time ? posed willingly, though they were meant to be private. She believes the pictures were online a year before she found them.

Ogden, who is responsible for investigating Internet crimes against children, said he gets about one call a month regarding a person in a similar situation.

The Sheriff?s Office doesn?t track statistics on this issue because it isn?t illegal, but such incidents aren?t rare, Ogden said. Typically they involve teenagers or young adults. ?I believe it?s prevalent, a lot more than people would admit.?

The proposed bill would prohibit ?knowing use of a computer or other device to transmit or post any photograph or video of an individual which depicts nudity and contains specified information relating to the depicted individual without first obtaining the depicted person?s written consent.?

A person who violates the statute could be sentenced to up to five years.

Sheriff Wayne Ivey said this idea came about when they noticed a trend of these issues, but had no legal means to fight them.

?As life goes on, (victims) go in, they apply for a job or they?re applying for college or they?re in college and someone?s Google searching them and then all these pictures are coming up,? Ivey said. ?It actually creates a long-term victimization for our victims and, in fact, there?s a couple examples where the victims have been so just so overrun by it and so depressed over it they?ve actually committed suicide.?