Policy Text
TRAINING BULLETIN
ISSUE: 25-18 DATE: April 29, 2025
California Assembly Bill 1962
Effective January 1, 2025, AB 1962 amended California Penal Code Section 647(j)(4) as
it relates to the distribution of images of another person (i.e., “revenge porn”). AB 1962
amended the section to add to the definition of disorderly conduct the distribution of
images recorded, captured, or otherwise obtained by the person distributing the image
without authorization of the person depicted, as specified, or by the person distributing
the image exceeding authorized access from the property, account, messages, files, or
resources of the person depicted.
California Penal Code section 647 is amended to read:
“(j)(4) (A) (i) A person who intentionally distributes or causes to be distributed the image
of the intimate body part or parts of another identifiable person, or an image of the person
depicted engaged in an act of sexual intercourse, sodomy, oral copulation, sexual
penetration, or an image of masturba