Connecticut Judiciary Committee Passes Sexting Bill
Posted By Irene C. Olszewski, Esq. on March 29, 2010
I’m sorry for the lack of posts last week but I was away on vacation. Other than the post on the Health Care Reform Bill being signed into law by President Obama, I was busy relaxing. So much for that.
Today, it was back to work. Do you have any idea how much mail can pile up in a week? Or how many voice mails can accumulate even when your outgoing message informs people that you won’t be returning calls for 10 days? Then there’s all those e-mails. Whew! Mondays are normally crazy days at the office. I’m considering asking the Judiciary Committee to pass a bill to officially declare all Mondays a legal holiday. I wonder what they’ll think of my idea.
Speaking of the Judiciary Committee, those fine folks were hard at work discussing and voting on a number of bills. Apparently, their agenda listed some 75 bills but they only acted on about half of them. They did pass the “sexting” bill which seeks to lessen the penalty for sexting between two consenting minors. 
If approved by the House and Senate and signed into law by the governor, criminal prosecutors will have an alternative to pursuing child-pornography charges against people under the age of 18 who engage in sexting. (”Sexting” is defined as sending sexually explicit messages and/or photographs of yourself or a friend electronically, generally via cell phone).
According to WSAU, at least 15 states have introduced — or are at least considering — similar legislation.
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