Colorado digital reality posture profile
This page summarizes six tracked digital safety topics for Colorado, showing where public legislative coverage currently looks more proactive, more reactive, broader, or thinner. It is a structural posture signal based on public disclosures, not a political or legal grade.
Educational summary only
Not legal advice. Laws and enforcement change frequently. Verify current official statutes, regulations, and counsel where needed.
Overall state posture signal
Reactive-leaning posture with narrow tracked coverage.
Based on six tracked topics and public disclosures.
Posture meter
Lean and breadth across six tracked topics. Not a quality or political score.
Lean
Reactive-leaning
Breadth
Narrow tracked coverage
Colorado Synthetic Explicit Content law summary
Based on direct statute tracking.
Colorado makes it both a crime and a civil wrong to share sexually explicit "deepfakes" of a real person without consent — depictions created or altered by generative AI, image-editing software, or other computer-generated means. Senate Bill 25-288, "Intimate Digital Depictions Criminal & Civil Actions," was signed by Governor Polis on June 2, 2025 and took effect August 6, 2025; the same law updates the state's child sexual-exploitation statute to reach realistic computer-generated depictions of an identifiable child, so AI-made child imagery is covered even when no real photo exists. Based on public records, a depicted victim can sue for the greater of actual damages or $150,000, plus attorney fees, and criminal disclosure runs from a misdemeanor up to a felony where the images threaten safety.
Educational summary only
Not legal advice. Laws and enforcement change frequently. Verify current official statutes, regulations, and counsel where needed.
Why this status
Based on direct statute tracking.
What this means
- Colorado's SB25-288, in effect since August 6, 2025, specifically criminalizes and creates civil liability for sexually explicit deepfakes and reaches realistic computer-generated child sexual abuse material of an identifiable child.
What to do next
- Read the cited statute or bill text linked below to confirm the specifics for your state.
Citation-grade sources
Official sources
1Colorado General Assembly — SB25-288 Intimate Digital Depictions Criminal & Civil Actions
Official textCitation: Official Colorado General Assembly bill page for SB25-288 shows status 'Became Law', signed June 2, 2025 and effective August 6, 2025, covering deepfake intimate images created by generative AI/computer-generated means and realistic computer-generated depictions of an identifiable child.
Observed: 2026-07-07Open source
Context / secondary sources
1ALM Law — Colorado's New Intimate Digital Depictions Law (SB25-288)
Discovery leadObserved: 2026-07-07Open source
Provenance
Source basis
Official/public links curated
Confidence
High confidence
Review scope
Review centered on currently tracked state-level law
Last reviewed
2026-07-07 · 7 July 2026
References
Colorado General Assembly — SB25-288 Intimate Digital Depictions Criminal & Civil Actions
ALM Law — Colorado's New Intimate Digital Depictions Law (SB25-288)
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