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AB-2691 Crimes: sexual harassment.(2023-2024)



As Amends the Law Today


SECTION 1.

 Section 647.4 is added to the Penal Code, to read:

647.4.
 (a) A person shall be guilty of sexual harassment if the person intentionally posts, distributes, or creates, or threatens to post, distribute, or create, an intimate digital depiction, as defined in subdivision (c), of another individual without consent of that individual.
(b) A person in violation of subdivision (a) shall be punished by imprisonment in a county jail not to exceed one year or pursuant to subdivision (h) of Section 1170 of the Penal Code.
(c) For purposes of this section, an “intimate digital depiction” means an image or video of an individual that has been created or altered using digital manipulation and that depicts any of the following:
(1) The uncovered genitals, pubic area, anus, or postpubescent nipple of an identifiable individual.
(2) The display or transfer of bodily sexual fluids onto any part of the body of an identifiable individual from the body of an identifiable individual.
(3) An identifiable individual engaging in sexually explicit conduct.
SEC. 2.
 No reimbursement is required by this act pursuant to Section 6 of Article XIII B of the California Constitution because the only costs that may be incurred by a local agency or school district will be incurred because this act creates a new crime or infraction, eliminates a crime or infraction, or changes the penalty for a crime or infraction, within the meaning of Section 17556 of the Government Code, or changes the definition of a crime within the meaning of Section 6 of Article XIII B of the California Constitution.