Rhode Island digital reality posture profile
This page summarizes six tracked digital safety topics for Rhode Island, 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.
Lean
Mixed posture
Breadth
Narrow tracked coverage
Rhode Island Synthetic Explicit Content law summary
Based on direct statute tracking.
Rhode Island makes it a crime to share a sexually explicit image of an identifiable adult without their consent even when the image is a deepfake — the statute now reaches "any image created by a digital device or altered by digitization." A 2025 amendment (H 5046, with companion S 136, sponsored by Rep. Jason Knight and Sen. Elaine Morgan) folded digitally created and altered images into the state's 2018 revenge-porn law, General Laws § 11-64-3; Gov. McKee signed it on July 2, 2025, and it took effect immediately. A first offense is a misdemeanor carrying up to a year in prison and a $1,000 fine, with a repeat offense charged as a felony. Based on public records as of July 2026, this covers synthetic intimate images of real people, though it still requires that the depicted person be identifiable.
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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
- An enacted 2025 amendment (H 5046 / S 136) specifically extends Rhode Island's revenge-porn statute § 11-64-3 to images "created by a digital device or altered by digitization," signed July 2, 2025 and effective immediately.
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
22025 -- H 5046 official bill text (RI General Assembly)
Official textCitation: Official RI General Assembly PDF of 2025-H 5046, the bill amending § 11-64-3 to reach digitally created/altered images; resolved as an 80.9KB PDF served from the legislature webserver.
Observed: 2026-07-07Open sourceR.I. Gen. Laws § 11-64-3 — Unauthorized dissemination of indecent material (official codified text)
Official textCitation: Official RI legislature codified text of § 11-64-3 reaches a visual image of an identifiable person 18+ 'including any image created by a digital device or altered by digitization,' confirming enacted deepfake coverage.
Observed: 2026-07-07Open source
Context / secondary sources
2ACLU of Rhode Island — Explicit Digital Images (H 5046, S 136)
Discovery leadObserved: 2026-07-07Open sourceRoute Fifty — Rhode Island House passes bill outlawing deepfake porn
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
2025 -- H 5046 official bill text (RI General Assembly)
R.I. Gen. Laws § 11-64-3 — Unauthorized dissemination of indecent material (official codified text)
ACLU of Rhode Island — Explicit Digital Images (H 5046, S 136)
Route Fifty — Rhode Island House passes bill outlawing deepfake porn
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