husband, both in person, via text, through his parents. he did not have anything substantive to add in regards to whether or not this is a political smear campaign. i can say, alisyn and john,dist california s 25th district, that hill won. she s a rising superstar in the democratic party. she flipped it. the gop wants to flip it back. it s considered a battleground state. if this is true, it would be a violation of house ethic rules. but whether it s true or not, we should point out that california does have a revenge porn law on the books. the release of this photo could certainly be problematic. kyung lah for us, we know you ll stay on this story for us. keep us posted. now here is what else to watch today.
reached out to me and have begun an investigation. if this would be texas law the capitol police don t have jurisdiction down there and no federal revenge porn law. what are the capitol police investigating? unclear why he got he invited the capitol police to get involved and they called him. unclear why he went that route. it is a texas issue, a texas revenge porn law. no federal law barring this kind of behavior yet. and so very unclear why the capitol hill police. i would not be at all surprised if it gets turned over to texas authorities in the near future. as we know, things live forever on the internet, good things and bad things. conceivably the congressman would want this picture to disappear forever. political opponents would not. is there any way he can truly make it disappear or is it one of these things that this woman
happening is these images continue to resurface on different sites. so it really is a battle to kind of keep up with the pace of the web. to keep frit proliferating. right. but sara, what if say the perpetrator lives in one state and you re in another? at that point how do you pursue the case? yeah, so there are lawyers that deal with kind of the cross ramifications of this. i mean, that s why we really need a federal revenge porn law because it will also set a baseline for what the punishment is. because a lot of times even with the laws they re not up to par with what the impact on the victim, right? so the punishment doesn t necessarily fit the crime. even in the states that do have laws. so we really need a federal law to kind of deal with the cross state issue and to deal with the, you know, levels up the punishment. to give some uniformity to
but when i started having back pain my sister had to come help. i don t like asking for help. i took tylenol but i had to take six pills to get through the day. so my daughter brought over some aleve. it s just two pills, all day! and now, i m back! aleve. two pills. all day strong, all day long. and for a good night s rest, try aleve pm for a better am. welcome back to weekends with alex witt. a california man was sentenced to 18 years behind bars on friday after being convicted under that state s new revenge porn law. the man ran a website where people could upload nude photos of others without their consent. he would then charge victims hundreds of dollars to get their photos removed. the scheme affected more than two dozen people. i ended up in mental hospitals because of this and recently just had another break,
parties said yes, and when it comes to the revenge porn law, that s something that actually in 2013 there was a law that said that you can t unknowingly to the person whose picture is being distributed online distribute that picture in order to embarrass or humiliate that person. let me ask you quickly, what are some of the more obscure laws that you found? right. there s certainly a lot of obscure laws. there were big ticket items like big round water regulations, but one that i thought was really interesting was on mug shots. there was what was called the mug shot racket. that is where websites take the publicly available mug shots and post them and then charge people in those photos to take them down so if you re embarrassed and want your mug shot off of this website, that s shooting up to the top of google then you google your name you have to pay money. that s now illegal in california. melanie gutierrez a lot of laws for ordinary citizens.