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In California, at least 2,024 minors received sex reassignment procedures between 2019 and 2023, The Center Square previously reported. This was the most in the country for a state. This was the ...
The California Legislature has approved a bill to crack down on child prostitution and allow prosecutors to charge anyone who purchases sex from a minor 15 or younger with a felony.
Status of social media age verification laws in the United States. In 2022 California passed the California Age-Appropriate Design Code Act (AB 2273) which requires websites that are likely to be used by minors to estimate visitors ages to give them some amount of privacy control and on March 23, 2023, Utah Governor Spencer Cox signed SB 152 and HB 311 collective known as the Utah Social Media ...
Age verification laws have passed in 19 states since 2023, in hopes of protecting minors from adult content. But critics argue these laws actually undermine the rights of adults who visit these sites.
As it stands, money earned and accumulated under a contract under the code remains the sole legal property of the minor child. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The law requires a child actor's employer to set aside 15% of the earnings in a trust (often called a Coogan Account) and codifies issues such as schooling, work hours, and time off.
In contrast, minors are unable to give consent under the law. Indeed, the term "minor" refers to a person who has not yet reached majority, the age at which one may give consent in any legal matter (for example, a minor cannot make a valid contract). [7] However, actual laws and the maximum ages that constitute breach of law vary by state. A ...
A pair of bills approved by California legislators would regulate how Facebook, YouTube and other platforms treat minors and seek to influence how they moderate extremist content.
Ohio law also contains a rule against importuning, which means a perpetrator of any age sexually soliciting a minor over the internet if the minor is under the age of 13, or in the case of a perpetrator 18 years of age or older, sexually soliciting any minor who is 13–15 years of age AND at least 4 years younger than the 18+ aged person ...