Crimes and offenses, crime of sexual extortion further provided for

SB 35 expands Alabama's definition of sexual extortion to include threatening to release or share explicit images or recordings of someone engaged in sexually explicit conduct. The bill makes it a crime to threaten to disclose such material - whether the person in the image is recognizable or not - to force someone to act or refrain from acting against their will. This directly affects perpetrators who use non-consensual image threats as a tool for coercion, broadening the legal scope beyond existing threats related to sexual acts or producing images. The law classifies sexual extortion as a Class B felony and defines "sexually explicit conduct" per existing state law.