Florida legal term
Image in Florida Criminal Law
Current through 2026 Florida legislative session
In Florida criminal law, “Image” is a term defined by statute rather than by its everyday meaning. Its statutory definition — quoted verbatim below — controls how the term is applied throughout the Florida criminal code.
What does “Image” mean in Florida criminal law?
“Image” includes, but is not limited to, any photograph, picture, motion picture, film, video, or representation.(b) “Personal identification information” means any information that identifies a person, and includes, but is not limited to, any name, postal or electronic mail address, telephone number, social security number, date of birth, or any unique physical representation.(c) “Sexually cyberharass” means to intentionally publish to an Internet website or intentionally disseminate through electronic means to another person a sexually explicit image of a person without the depicted person’s (Fla. Stat. § 784.049)
Statutes defining or using this term
Charges using this term
- Digital voyeurism
- Electronic communication
- Florida Communications Fraud Act
- Generated child pornography
- Harmful materials; sale or distribution to minors or using minors in production prohibited; penalty
- Lewd or lascivious images; penalties
- Obscene matter; transportation into state prohibited; penalty
- Prohibition of certain acts in connection with obscene, lewd, etc., materials; penalty
- Protection of minors; prohibition of certain acts in connection with obscenity; penalty
- Sexual activities involving animals
- Sexual performance by a child; child pornography; penalties
- Theft or unauthorized promotion of a sexually explicit image
Related terms in the same statutes
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