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Living Safe: 'Sexting' consequences go beyond legal issues
Teens break this law when they sext by sending nude or sexually suggestive pictures to another. As minors, their transmission of the visual materials, even of and by themselves, is a violation of the criminal code. To account for the difference between
Updated: 05/14/2012 03:34P

Living Safe: 'Sexting' consequences go beyond legal issues
Teens break this law when they sext by sending nude or sexually suggestive pictures to another. As minors, their transmission of the visual materials, even of and by themselves, is a violation of the criminal code. To account for the difference between
Updated: 05/14/2012 03:34P

NY Child Porn Decision Receives Backlash
"Child pornography is the most prominent sexual crime, affecting millions of innocent children each year," said Trueman. "For the highest court in New York to say that viewing child porn online is not a crime, though all of law enforcement in New York
Updated: 05/14/2012 03:34P

NY Child Porn Decision Receives Backlash
"Child pornography is the most prominent sexual crime, affecting millions of innocent children each year," said Trueman. "For the highest court in New York to say that viewing child porn online is not a crime, though all of law enforcement in New York
Updated: 05/14/2012 03:34P

No jail for ex-student in webcam case
Sharma said he does not have high hopes for Monday's rally helping keep Ravi from getting a jail sentence, but said it could lead to changes in the state's hate-crime laws. He and some others met with the staffs of several lawmakers earlier Monday to
Updated: 05/14/2012 03:33P

3 things to know about the proposed mask law
The bill originally proposed a maximum penalty of five years imprisonment, but last week Richards proposed to increase that to 10 years in order to bring it in line with the existing Criminal Code offences related to wearing a disguise.
Updated: 05/14/2012 03:10P

3 things to know about the proposed mask law
The bill originally proposed a maximum penalty of five years imprisonment, but last week Richards proposed to increase that to 10 years in order to bring it in line with the existing Criminal Code offences related to wearing a disguise.
Updated: 05/14/2012 03:10P

New Documents Confirm Koch Was on NRA-Led ALEC Crime Task Force
Koch has said it had no involvement in the SYG law passed in Florida and then ratified by the ALEC criminal justice task force in 2005. The company, however, was a leader of ALEC in 2005, just as today, and its funding helps underwrite ALEC's
Updated: 05/14/2012 03:06P

Protest: Man in US webcam case shouldn't get jail
AP TRENTON, New Jersey (AP) — Several hundred protesters gathered Monday to support a former US university student convicted of bias intimidation in a webcam spying case and to call attention to what they see as injustices in hate crime laws.
Updated: 05/14/2012 03:02P

NY Legislation Follows Ruling on Viewing Child Porn
or saving pornography to a computer, as the current law does. Tim Henning, ASACP's executive director, last week told XBIZ that the appeals court decision was "disappointing" and that those who "abuse children need to be successfully prosecuted."
Updated: 05/14/2012 02:46P

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