Maine digital reality posture profile
This page summarizes six tracked digital safety topics for Maine, 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
Mixed 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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Mixed posture
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Maine Synthetic Explicit Content law summary
Based on direct statute tracking.
Maine makes it a crime to share a sexually explicit image of a real person without consent even when that image was created or altered by AI. In June 2025 Governor Janet Mills signed LD 1944 (Public Law 2025, chapter 400), which amended Maine's "unauthorized dissemination of certain private images" statute (Title 17-A section 511-A) so it now reaches an image "created or modified so that it appears to show the depicted person" in a state of nudity or engaged in a sexual act, and defines a covered "image" to include content that is "generated." The change took effect September 24, 2025, and such images can also support a protection-from-abuse or protection-from-harassment order. Based on public records, a separate proposal to extend Maine's child sexual abuse material laws to AI-generated depictions of minors was still moving through the Legislature as of early 2026 and had not yet been enacted.
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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
- Maine's non-consensual intimate image statute was amended by an enacted, signed 2025 law to explicitly reach images created or altered by AI, a rule that specifically covers synthetic explicit content.
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
2Maine Legislature — LD 1944 (HP 1303) Text and Status, 132nd Legislature, First Special Session
Official textCitation: Official bill status shows LD 1944 'An Act to Protect Individuals from the Threatened Unauthorized Dissemination of Certain Private Images, Including Artificially Generated Private Images' Enacted and Signed by the Governor Jun 20, 2025 as Public Law Chapter 400.
Observed: 2026-07-07Open sourceMaine Title 17-A §511-A — Unauthorized dissemination of certain private images
Official textCitation: Codified statute reaches an image 'created or modified so that it appears to show the depicted person' nude or in a sexual act, with 'image' defined to include 'generated' content; amended by PL 2025, c. 400 §§2, 3.
Observed: 2026-07-07Open source
Context / secondary sources
1Maine House Democrats — Governor signs Kuhn legislation to protect Mainers from deceptive artificial intelligence
Discovery leadObserved: 2026-07-07Open source
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Source basis
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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
Maine Legislature — LD 1944 (HP 1303) Text and Status, 132nd Legislature, First Special Session
Maine Title 17-A §511-A — Unauthorized dissemination of certain private images
Maine House Democrats — Governor signs Kuhn legislation to protect Mainers from deceptive artificial intelligence
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