Judge finds ‘revenge porn’ law unconstitutional

On an October day last year, a Bennington County woman got a call telling her that naked photographs of her had been posted on Facebook.

The woman had seen the photos before. In fact, she had taken them and shared them via private message with a man. Now, without her consent, they were posted publicly and she was tagged in them.

The incident became one of the first cases to be brought in criminal court under Vermont’s newly enacted law on what’s known as revenge porn. However, earlier this month, a judge dismissed the case because he found the law unconstitutional on free-speech grounds.

Now, just over one year after the bill was signed into law, the statute appears poised to be tested before the Vermont Supreme Court.

Read more: http://vtdigger.org/2016/08/01/judge-finds-revenge-porn-law-unconstitutional/