New York City, N.Y., Mar 5, 2019 / 00:11 am
Lawmakers in New York have passed a bill to outlaw "revenge porn"- the non-consensual sharing of explicit images of a person, typically done by an ex-romantic partner.
The bill, passed by legislators last week, has the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo, who is expected to sign it into law, the Associated Press reports.
Forty-one states, the District of Columbia, and several cities and counties across the U.S. have already banned revenge porn.
Without an explicit ban on the practice, judges have turned down appeals to help victims of revenge porn, citing freedom of speech, The New York Times reports. Five years ago, when New York's revenge porn ban was first introduced, only a handful of states had passed similar bans.