Idaho digital reality posture profile
This page summarizes six tracked digital safety topics for Idaho, 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.
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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.
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Reactive-leaning
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Narrow tracked coverage
Idaho Synthetic Explicit Content law summary
Based on direct statute tracking.
Idaho makes it a crime both to create synthetic child sexual abuse material and to share sexually explicit deepfakes of a real person. Under Idaho Code 18-1507C (House Bill 465, signed March 25, 2024, effective July 1, 2024), it is a felony to produce, possess, receive, or share a visual depiction of a child in explicit sexual conduct that was "created using generative AI or machine learning" — and the law applies even if the depicted child does not actually exist. A companion statute, Idaho Code 18-6606 "Disclosing explicit synthetic media" (House Bill 575, effective July 1, 2024, later amended in 2026), makes it a crime to disclose, without consent, images or video "created or altered using technical means, such as artificial intelligence, to realistically misrepresent an identifiable individual" in sexual conduct. Both laws are in effect, and prosecutors have begun using the synthetic-CSAM statute in Idaho cases.
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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
- Two enacted Idaho statutes specifically criminalize generative-AI/machine-learning synthetic CSAM (18-1507C) and non-consensual explicit synthetic media of real people (18-6606), both effective July 1, 2024.
What to do next
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Official sources
3Idaho Code § 18-1507C — Visual Representations of the Sexual Abuse of Children
Official textCitation: Idaho Code 18-1507C criminalizes a visual depiction 'created using generative AI or machine learning' of a child in explicit sexual conduct; felony up to 5 years / $5,000; created by HB 465 (2024).
Observed: 2026-07-07Open sourceIdaho Code § 18-6606 — Disclosing Explicit Synthetic Media
Official textCitation: Idaho Code 18-6606 defines 'synthetic media' as an image/video created or altered using AI to realistically misrepresent an identifiable individual, and criminalizes non-consensual disclosure of explicit synthetic media; enacted 2024 (ch. 105), amended 2026 (ch. 121).
Observed: 2026-07-07Open sourceIdaho Legislature — House Bill 465 (2024) bill page
Official textCitation: HB 465 (2024) created 18-1507C for the crime of visual representations of the sexual abuse of children; signed by the Governor March 25, 2024, effective July 1, 2024, Session Law Chapter 194.
Observed: 2026-07-07Open source
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Confidence
High confidence
Review scope
Review centered on currently tracked state-level law
Last reviewed
2026-07-07 · 7 July 2026
References
Idaho Code § 18-1507C — Visual Representations of the Sexual Abuse of Children
Idaho Code § 18-6606 — Disclosing Explicit Synthetic Media
Idaho Legislature — House Bill 465 (2024) bill page
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