Old Colorado Laws Collide With Digital Reality In Teen Sexting Cases

CANON CITY — Educators in a small Colorado town say they had no choice but alert police when they discovered that many high-schoolers were using a cellphone app to collect and hide hundreds of naked photos of themselves. The law in Colorado and many other states classifies any explicit photos of minors as child pornography, and requires school employees to bring in police the moment they learn of it. Prosecutors are looking for evidence of coercion and to see if any adults were involved, saying they don't intend to file criminal charges against everyone. Meanwhile, the teachers can't even counsel the students involved, because doing so would require their confidential conversations to be reported to police as well. Read more on Colorado Springs Gazette

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