Victims of revenge porn in California have more time to report offenses following Gov. Gavin Newsom’s signature on a state Senate bill sponsored by the Alameda County district attorney.

Senate Bill 23 changes the statute of limitations for “revenge porn” cases, officially known as invasion of privacy cases, to one year from the discovery of the posting rather than one year from the posting itself.

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Keith Burbank is currently a fulltime reporter covering Alameda County and Oakland news for Bay City News. He has also worked on the Data Points project for Local News Matters, finding trends and stories about the region through data. In 2019, he was a California Fellow at the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism, producing a series about homeless deaths in Santa Clara County. He worked as a swing shift editor for the newswire for several years as well. Outside of journalism, Keith enjoys computer programming, math, economics and music.