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Committee hears bill to criminalize doxxing of young people
Summary
Delegate Ashanti Martinez presented House Bill 11‑50 to criminalize the intentional distribution of identifying information that leads to harassment when the victim is under age 25.
Delegate Ashanti Martinez presented House Bill 11‑50, titled the Criminal Law — Personal Identifying Information and Images of Individuals Dissemination Act, proposing a new offense to address doxxing and the nonconsensual distribution of personal identifying information when the victim is under age 25.
"This bill seeks to establish clear penalties for individuals who engage in the harmful and increasingly prevalent act of doxxing," Delegate Martinez told the committee, noting recent campus incidents where students’ names and workplaces were…
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