Impact more legislation to end revenge porn

Impact Legislation

Contact your local legislators tell them your story, and urge them to sponsor/support a bill against revenge porn for your state.
  1. Instructions: Find your Legislator’s Contact Information: Use our interactive map, found in dropdown menu under Impact Legislation, to find contact information for you legislators. If a bill against revenge porn is currently being sponsored in your state, contact the sponsor of that bill as well to show your support.
  2. Contact Your Legislator: You can contact your legislators via email or phone.Email: Send each of your legislators an email, expressing your support or describing how revenge porn has affected your life. Click here to see a template letter that shows you exactly how to write and format this email. OR Call Their Office: Call your legislator’s office and you will most likely speak with a legislative aid. Tell them there needs to be a law against this in your state and you were calling to urge your legislator to sponsor a bill or support one that is already being considered.
  3. Share the Non-Consensual Pornography Proposal With Them: We have been working for a year with a group of advocates, activists, lawyers, and law professors to come up with a proposal to give to legislators interested in sponsoring a bill against revenge porn. The proposal, written by Mary Anne Franks, Associate Professor of Law at the University of Miami, lays out background information on the issue of revenge porn and proposes model state and federal laws to criminalize it. It also addresses the First Amendment concerns that most legislators have about implementing a bill like this and provides them with defenses they can use in the face of such arguments. If you wrote emails, attach this proposal to your email and be sure to mention it in the body of your message. If you called your legislators, be sure to tell the legislative aid that you can share this proposal with them so that the legislator can look it over and consider implementing a bill in their state that is identical or similar to the model law contained within. The proposal (a PDF) can be accessed by clicking here or here for the abridged version.