SB 890

Bill Subjects

Abstract

Existing law provides for a private cause of action against a person who intentionally distributes a photograph or recording of another without their consent if specified conditions are met. This bill would require a social media internet website, as defined, to remove a photograph or video recording uploaded or posted to the internet website by the perpetrator of a crime that depicts the crime within 2 hours after receiving a request from a victim of the crime that was depicted in that photograph or video, or from the family of a victim if the victim has died, to remove that content, as specified. The bill would impose a civil penalty of $1,000 for each day that the photograph or video recording remains available on the internet website upon a social media internet website that fails to comply with these provisions. The bill would specify that the penalty imposed pursuant to these provisions would be deposited in the Restitution Fund in the State Treasury to be used, upon appropriation by the Legislature, for indemnification of victims of crimes.