N.Y. PEN Law § 250.55
This is the official text of N.Y. PEN Law § 250.55, part of New York’s Penal Law — defines crimes and punishments in New York.
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Dissemination of an unlawful surveillance image in the second degree
Official statutory text
§ 250.55 Dissemination of an unlawful surveillance image in the second\n degree.\n A person is guilty of dissemination of an unlawful surveillance image\nin the second degree when he or she, with knowledge of the unlawful\nconduct by which an image or images of the sexual or other intimate\nparts of another person or persons were obtained and such unlawful\nconduct would satisfy the essential elements of the crime of unlawful\nsurveillance in the first or second degree, as defined, respectively, in\nsection 250.50 or 250.45 of this article, intentionally disseminates\nsuch image or images.\n Dissemination of an unlawful surveillance image in the second degree\nis a class A misdemeanor.\n
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