Dissemination of an unlawful surveillance image in the second degree · as in force on May 31, 2026
§ 250.55 Dissemination of an unlawful surveillance image in the second
degree.
A person is guilty of dissemination of an unlawful surveillance image in the second degree when he or she, with knowledge of the unlawful conduct by which an image or images of the sexual or other intimate parts of another person or persons were obtained and such unlawful conduct would satisfy the essential elements of the crime of unlawful surveillance in the first or second degree, as defined, respectively, in section 250.50 or 250.45 of this article, intentionally disseminates such image or images.
Dissemination of an unlawful surveillance image in the second degree is a class A misdemeanor.
Intentionally sharing an image of another person’s sexual or intimate parts, while knowing it was obtained through conduct meeting first- or second-degree unlawful surveillance under § 250.50 or § 250.45, is second-degree dissemination of an unlawful-surveillance image, a class A misdemeanor. ★
Marked in the text: penalties, time limits, sums of money. Editorial emphasis added by this edition; it does not appear in the statute as enacted.
This provision appears in Volume 4 — The Court Clerk: Penal Law; Volume 1 — The Court Officer in Plain English; Volume 3 — The Court Officer: Penal Law; Volume 3 — Your Career: Penal Law in Plain English.