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Law Practice,
Criminal

Oct. 11, 2021

Revenge porn victims get time to discover and report crime

“We had a clear violation, we had an individual who did do this and admitted to doing it, but we could not prosecute because of the way the [previous] law was written,” said Tulare County Supervising Deputy District Attorney Erica Gonzalez, who helped draft the new law, SB23.

A more accessible path to justice is how prosecutors described the passage of SB 23, which extends the statute of limitations on the criminal prosecution of revenge porn cases to when the alleged crime was discovered rather than when it occurred.

"Revenge porn has devastating and long-lasting impacts on victims' lives," El Dorado County District Attorney Vern Pierson, immediate past president of the California District Attorneys Associatio...

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