by jdi-admin | Jun 20, 2024 | Media Coverage
PUBLISHED 6/20/2024 by LISA ARONSON FONTES A new bill signed into law on Thursday cracks down on coercive control by domestic abusers and bans revenge pornography in Massachusetts. Gov. Maura Healey during 2023 Massachusetts Conference for Women on Dec. 14,...
by jdi-admin | Jun 13, 2024 | Media Coverage
Dominique Farrell, GBH June 13, 2024 Updated June 14, 2024 The Massachusetts Senate voted 38-0 to criminalize what’s known as revenge porn, the sharing of intimate or sexually-explicit images without the subject’s consent. The vote follows the unanimous approval of...
by jdi-admin | Jun 13, 2024 | Media Coverage
BY STEVE LEBLANC Updated 6:47 PM EDT, June 13, 2024 BOSTON (AP) — A bill aimed at outlawing “revenge porn” has been approved by lawmakers in the Massachusetts House and Senate and shipped to Democratic Gov. Maura Healey, a move advocates say was long overdue. If...