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Panel hears bill to modernize blackmail law to cover AI-altered and minor-targeted media
Summary
Lawmakers reviewed HB 25-94 to modify the blackmail statute so threats to disseminate videotape, images or AI-altered media are chargeable regardless of victim age or how media were produced; prosecutors asked to preserve breach-of-privacy protections and to distinguish blackmail from extortion.
The House Judiciary Committee on Feb. 5 heard House Bill 25-94, a draft intended to modernize Kansas' blackmail statute to address AI-altered imagery and situations where existing breach-of-privacy references leave minors unprotected.
Jason Thompson of the Revisor’s Office said the bill amends KSA 21-54-28 to change the subsection that governs threats to disseminate a videotape, photograph or image so prosecutors are not stymied by current references to the breach-of-privacy statute. The draft explicitly covers media…
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