Vermont digital reality posture profile
This page summarizes six tracked digital safety topics for Vermont, 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
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
Vermont Synthetic Explicit Content law summary
Based on direct statute tracking.
Vermont makes it a crime to disclose a sexually explicit image of an identifiable person without their consent, and as of June 6, 2024 that ban explicitly reaches deepfakes and other digitally altered or computer-generated images. Act 161 (H.878, signed June 6, 2024) amended the state's disclosure statute, 13 V.S.A. § 2606, to define "digitization" as altering an image in a realistic manner using images of a person — including computer-generated images — and to fold digitized images into the "visual image" the statute covers. Based on public records, this reaches non-consensual intimate deepfakes of real people; Vermont has not yet added matching AI or computer-generated language to its child sexual abuse material statutes. As of July 2026, this rule is enacted and in effect.
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
- Vermont's enacted disclosure statute, 13 V.S.A. § 2606 as amended by Act 161 effective June 6, 2024, specifically defines and criminalizes non-consensual sharing of realistic, digitized, and computer-generated intimate images.
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
213 V.S.A. § 2606 — Disclosure of sexually explicit images without consent
Official textCitation: Section (a)(6) defines 'digitization' as altering an image in a realistic manner including computer-generated images; annotated as added 2015 No. 62 and amended 2023 No. 161, effective June 6, 2024.
Observed: 2026-07-07Open sourceVermont Legislature — Bill Status H.878 (Act 161)
Official textCitation: H.878 became Act 161; the bill status records the Governor approved the bill on June 6, 2024 with an effective date of June 6, 2024, amending 13 V.S.A. § 2606.
Observed: 2026-07-07Open source
Context / secondary sources
1VT Attorney General — Clark Thanks Legislature for Explicitly Criminalizing Nonconsensual 'Deepfake' Pornography (May 14, 2024)
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
13 V.S.A. § 2606 — Disclosure of sexually explicit images without consent
Vermont Legislature — Bill Status H.878 (Act 161)
VT Attorney General — Clark Thanks Legislature for Explicitly Criminalizing Nonconsensual 'Deepfake' Pornography (May 14, 2024)
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