Florida teenagers can sext with legal impunity thanks to stupid legislature.

Florida teenagers can sext with legal impunity thanks to stupid legislature.



Florida teenagers can sext with legal impunity thanks to stupid legislature. http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2015/02/02/florida_teenagers_can_sext_with_legal_impunity_thanks_to_stupid_legislature.html



"The upshot of this misadventure in statute-drafting is that Florida’s sexting law is completely unenforceable. Thanks to the statute’s layered structure, the more serious penalties for sexting can only come after a minor has been convicted of his first offense. But because that first offense is a civil infraction—and because no court can hear civil cases involving minors—it is legally impossible for any minor to be charged with that first offense. As a result, there simply cannot be a second, third, or fourth offense. Sexting between teens—even sexting images of a minor’s nude body—is now functionally legal in Florida."