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Senate panel advances bills creating new child-obscenity offenses, adjusting registry removal rules
Summary
The Senate Judiciary Committee advanced two bills that would criminalize obscene visual depictions of child sexual abuse and the creation or distribution of morphed images of identifiable minors, and amend rules for requesting removal from the state sex-offender registry.
A Senate Judiciary Committee subcommittee on [date not specified] advanced two bills that create new criminal offenses for obscene visual depictions and for morphed images of identifiable minors and that amend procedures on requesting removal from the state sex-offender registry.
The measures would make the knowing production, distribution or possession with intent to distribute of obscene visual depictions of child sexual abuse a felony punishable by two to 10 years in prison and would place a person convicted under the proposed code section on the registry as a tier 1 offender, according to committee staff member Mara (staff member). Mara said the bill also would make knowing possession of an obscene visual representation a felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison.
The bills establish that a minor charged for a first offense under the new statutes would be handled in family court as a misdemeanor and, if…
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