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Children's advocacy centers and prosecutors urge law changes: rename CSAM language, study AI images and criminalize grooming
Summary
Children's advocacy centers and prosecutors asked the interim committee to modernize Century Code language that currently uses the phrase 'sexual performance by a minor,' to review penalties and enforcement for AI-generated images and growing sextortion threats, and to consider stronger hiring and homeschool safeguards.
Children's advocacy centers and prosecutors told the Legislative Management Study Committee on Sept. 30 that North Dakota statutes and practice need updates to keep pace with online technologies and evolving patterns of abuse.
Greg Kosowski, executive director of Children's Advocacy Centers of North Dakota, presented ten recommendations the centers developed with prosecutors and other partners. He urged an audit of chapter 12.1-27.2 to remove the outdated phrase "sexual performance by a minor" and replace it with "child sexual abusive material" (CSAM) to align statutory language with modern prosecution and public understanding.
"If you open up 12.1-27.2 right now, you see ‘sexual performance of a minor' as how we refer to child…
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