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Bills

AB 1721: Crimes: false depictions.

  • Session Year: 2023-2024
  • House: Assembly
  • Latest Version Date: 2023-03-23

Current Status:

Failed

(2024-02-01: From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56.)

Introduced

In Committee

First Chamber

In Committee

Second Chamber

Enacted

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The California Constitution declares that all people have inalienable rights, including the right to pursue privacy.

Existing law makes it a crime to distribute intimate images of another person, as specified, that were intended to remain private, and that results in the serious emotional distress of the person depicted.

This bill would make it a crime for a person to knowingly, and without the consent of the depicted individual, distribute to, exhibit to, or exchange with others, or offer to distribute to, exhibit to, or exchange with others audio or visual media that falsely depicts an individual engaging in sexual conduct that would appear to a reasonable observer to be an authentic record of the conduct. By creating a new crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.

The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.

This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.

Existing law, the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA), grants a consumer various rights with respect to personal information, as defined, that is collected or sold by a business, as defined, including requiring a business that collects a consumers personal information to disclose to that consumer the categories and specific pieces of personal information the business has collected. The California Privacy Rights Act of 2020, approved by the voters as Proposition 24 at the November 3, 2020, statewide general election, amended, added to, and reenacted the CCPA.This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to those provisions.

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