Creates separate crime for items depicting sexual exploitation or abuse of children; concerns computer generated or manipulated sexually explicit images.

# Summary of New Jersey Child Pornography Law Amendments This bill amends New Jersey's legal framework regarding child pornography and related offenses to address modern technological threats, particularly "deepfakes" and manipulated images. ## Key Changes: 1. **Separation of Child Pornography Statute**: - Separates child pornography from the broader child endangerment statute - Creates a distinct crime for child pornography to improve law enforcement clarity and crime statistics tracking 2. **Expanded Definition of Child Pornography**: - Includes "manipulated depictions" (deepfakes) that appear to show an identifiable child or purported child engaging in prohibited sexual acts - This expands the definition beyond actual images of children to include digitally altered images 3. **Alignment of Penalties**: - Adjusts the thresholds for "leader of a child pornography network" offense: * First degree: 1,000+ items (previously 100,000+) * Second degree: less than 1,000 items (previously 1,000-100,000) - Aligns these thresholds with the possession with intent to distribute child pornography statute 4. **Penalty Structure**: - First degree: 10-20 years imprisonment, up to $200,000 fine - Second degree: 5-10 years imprisonment, up to $150,000 fine - Third degree: 3-5 years imprisonment, up to $15,000 fine 5. **Invasion of Privacy Amendment**: - Includes manipulated depictions appearing to show intimate or sexually explicit images of a person without consent - Clarifies that consent to being photographed/filmed in intimate/sexual manner does not imply consent to distribution 6. **Obscenity Statute Update**: - Includes manipulated depictions appearing to show a purported child engaging in prohibited sexual acts - Maintains the legal distinction between child pornography (actual identifiable child) and obscenity The bill updates New Jersey's laws to address modern technology that can create convincing but fake images of children in sexual situations, ensuring the legal framework remains effective against evolving threats.