South Dakota § 22-21-4 - Prohibited recording or manipulated image--Penalty.

§ 22-21-4. Prohibited recording or manipulated image--Penalty.

No individual, without the consent or knowledge of the individual depicted or recorded, and with the intent to self-gratify or alarm, annoy, embarrass, harass, invade the privacy of, threaten, or cause emotional, financial, physical, psychological, or reputational harm to that individual, may:

(1)    Intentionally use any device to photograph or visually record the individual without clothing or under or through the clothing, or with a third individual depicted in a sexual act, for the purpose of viewing the body of, or the undergarments worn by, the individual;

(2)    Intentionally disclose, disseminate, distribute, sell, or use, by any means, any recording or photograph described in subdivision (1); or

(3)    Knowingly and intentionally create, disclose, disseminate, distribute, or sell, by any means, digitally fabricated material depicting the identifiable individual:

(a)    In a state of nudity, as defined in § 22-24A-2, such that an ordinary person viewing the material would conclude that the depiction is of the identifiable individual in such a state of nudity; or

(b)    Engaging in sexual contact, sexual intercourse, deviant sexual activity, or sexually explicit conduct such that an ordinary person viewing the material would conclude that the depiction is of the identifiable individual engaging in sexual contact, sexual intercourse, deviant sexual activity, or sexually explicit conduct.

A violation of subdivision (1) or (2) is a Class 1 misdemeanor, unless the victim is seventeen years of age or younger and the perpetrator is at least twenty-one years of age at the time the photograph or recording is made, in which case the violation is a Class 6 felony. Any subsequent violation of subdivision (1) or (2) is a Class 6 felony. A violation of subdivision (3) is a Class 5 felony.

Source: SL 2004, ch 151, § 1; SL 2011, ch 116, § 1; SL 2016, ch 123, § 1; SL 2020, ch 87, § 4; SL 2021, ch 96, § 1; SL 2022, ch 63, § 1; SL 2026, ch 104, § 1.