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Senate Judiciary Committee hears SB 8 to bar some registered sex offenders from posting or using images of children online; debate centers on scope and drafting
Summary
Sponsors say SB 8 would bar level 3 and 4 registered sex offenders from recording or using images of children under 14 on social media; opponents warned the bill is overbroad and may raise constitutional problems and unintended employment consequences. The committee adopted a technical wording change and continued the bill for further work next week.
Senators on the Judiciary Committee debated SB 8, a bill sponsored on the floor to prohibit level 3 and level 4 registered sex offenders from recording children under 14 or using a child’s image on social media without a guardian’s permission. Sponsor Senator Garner said the measure responds to incidents in other states where registrants posted images of minors online and argued the change would protect children’s images and reduce predators’ ability to ‘catfish’ victims.
The bill’s sponsor told the committee that SB 8 would “prevent them from taking recordings ... of children under the age of 14 unless they have the permission of the guardian or parent” and that the measure would also address “using…
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