{
 "citation": "14:91.5",
 "heading": "Unlawful use of a social networking website",
 "doc_id": "78714",
 "source_url": "https://legis.la.gov/legis/Law.aspx?d=78714",
 "classification": "M",
 "enacted_year": "2011",
 "last_amended_year": "2025",
 "penalties": [
  {
   "subsection": "C(1)",
   "text": "C.(1) Whoever commits the crime of unlawful use of a social networking website shall, upon a first conviction, be fined not more than ten thousand dollars and shall be imprisoned with hard labor for not more than ten years without benefit of parole, probation, or suspension of sentence.",
   "los_min": "0",
   "los_max": "10Y",
   "hard_labor": "",
   "benefits": "W/O BENEFITS (parole, probation, or suspension of sentence)",
   "death": false,
   "condition": ""
  },
  {
   "subsection": "C(2)",
   "text": "(2) Whoever commits the crime of unlawful use of a social networking website, upon a second or subsequent conviction, shall be fined not more than twenty thousand dollars and shall be imprisoned with hard labor for not less than five years nor more than twenty years without benefit of parole, probation, or suspension of sentence.",
   "los_min": "5Y",
   "los_max": "20Y",
   "hard_labor": "",
   "benefits": "W/O BENEFITS (parole, probation, or suspension of sentence)",
   "death": false,
   "condition": ""
  }
 ],
 "referenced_statutes": [
  "14:283",
  "14:81",
  "14:81.1",
  "14:81.3",
  "15:541"
 ],
 "text": "RS 14:91.5\n\n\u00a791.5. Unlawful use of a social networking website\n\nA. The following shall constitute unlawful use of a social networking website:\n\n(1) The intentional use of a social networking website by a person who is required\nto register as a sex offender and who was convicted of R.S. 14:81 (indecent behavior with\njuveniles), R.S. 14:81.1 (child sexual abuse materials), R.S. 14:81.3 (computer-aided\nsolicitation of a minor), or R.S. 14:283 (video voyeurism) or was convicted of a sex offense\nas defined in R.S. 15:541 in which the victim of the sex offense was a minor.\n\n(2) The provisions of this Section shall also apply to any person convicted for an\noffense under the laws of another state, or military, territorial, foreign, tribal, or federal law\nwhich is equivalent to the offenses provided for in Paragraph (1) of this Subsection, unless\nthe tribal court or foreign conviction was not obtained with sufficient safeguards for\nfundamental fairness and due process for the accused as provided by the federal guidelines\nadopted pursuant to the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006.\n\nB. For purposes of this Section:\n\n(1) \"Minor\" means a person under the age of eighteen years.\n\n(2)(a) \"Social networking website\" means an Internet website, the primary purpose\nof which is facilitating social interaction with other users of the website and has all of the\nfollowing capabilities:\n\n(i) Allows users to create web pages or profiles about themselves that are available\nto the general public or to any other users.\n\n(ii) Offers a mechanism for communication among users.\n\n(b) \"Social networking website\" shall not include any of the following:\n\n(i) An Internet website that provides only one of the following services: photo-sharing, electronic mail, or instant messaging.\n\n(ii) An Internet website the primary purpose of which is the facilitation of\ncommercial transactions involving goods or services between its members or visitors.\n\n(iii) An Internet website the primary purpose of which is the dissemination of news.\n\n(iv) An Internet website of a governmental entity.\n\n(3) \"Use\" shall mean to create a profile on a social networking website or to contact\nor attempt to contact other users of the social networking website.\n\nC.(1) Whoever commits the crime of unlawful use of a social networking website\nshall, upon a first conviction, be fined not more than ten thousand dollars and shall be\nimprisoned with hard labor for not more than ten years without benefit of parole, probation,\nor suspension of sentence.\n\n(2) Whoever commits the crime of unlawful use of a social networking website,\nupon a second or subsequent conviction, shall be fined not more than twenty thousand dollars\nand shall be imprisoned with hard labor for not less than five years nor more than twenty\nyears without benefit of parole, probation, or suspension of sentence.\n\nActs 2011, No. 26, \u00a71; Acts 2012, No. 205, \u00a71; Acts 2025, No. 261, \u00a71."
}