Video Voyeurism and Unauthorized Dissemination of Intimate Images (including digitally created images)
RI Voyeurism / NCII Law
Other · Artificial intelligence · Communications
Criminalizes secretly capturing intimate images where a person expects privacy, peering into homes with imaging devices, and sharing sexually explicit or intimate images of an identifiable adult without consent when the sharer knows or recklessly disregards likely harm. A 2025 amendment extends the dissemination offense to images created by a digital device or altered by digitization, covering AI-generated intimate deepfakes, and adds sextortion and pay-to-remove offenses.
- Where
- Rhode Island
- Citation
- R.I. Gen. Laws §§ 11-64-1 to 11-64-3
- Status
- In force
- Last amended
- 2025-07-02
- Enforced by
- Prosecutors
- People can sue
- No
- Penalties
- Video voyeurism: up to 3 years and/or ,000. Unauthorized dissemination: first offense misdemeanor (up to 1 year and/or ,000), later offenses felony (up to 3 years and/or ,000). Threats to disclose for a benefit, or demanding payment to remove images, are felonies up to 5 years and/or ,000.
- Applies to
- Any person who records, views or disseminates intimate images of another person without consent in Rhode Island, or where the harm occurs in Rhode Island
- Interactive computer services, information services and telecommunications services are not liable for third-party content
Practices it requires
- Do not use or install an imaging device to capture intimate images of another person without knowledge and consent where there is a reasonable expectation of privacy, or disseminate such images.R.I. Gen. Laws § 11-64-2(1)
- Do not disseminate, publish or sell sexually explicit or intimate images of an identifiable adult, including digitally created or altered images, that were private or made without consent, without the person's consent and with knowledge or reckless disregard of likely harm.R.I. Gen. Laws § 11-64-3(a)
- Do not threaten to disclose such images to obtain a benefit, or demand payment to remove them from public view.R.I. Gen. Laws § 11-64-3(e)-(f) · From 2025-07-02
Sources
- Official text
- R.I. Gen. Laws ch. 11-64 (Rhode Island General Assembly)
- R.I. Gen. Laws § 11-64-3, Unauthorized dissemination of indecent material
Checked against these sources on 2026-09-25 by research agent (Claude), primary sources.
Unverified: Which specific subsections were added by P.L. 2025, chs. 429 and 430 (effective July 2, 2025) was not confirmed against the public law; effective_on for (e)-(f) is an assumption.
Research reference, not legal advice.