{"data":{"id":"us-ks/k.s.a.-21-5428","jurisdiction":"us-ks","citation":"K.S.A. 21-5428","heading":"Blackmail.","body":"(a) Blackmail is intentionally gaining or attempting to gain anything of value or compelling or attempting to compel another to act against such person's will, by threatening to:\n(1) Communicate accusations or statements about any person that would subject such person or any other person to public ridicule, contempt or degradation; or\n(2) disseminate any videotape, photograph, film or image obtained in violation of K.S.A. 21-6101(a)(6) or (a)(8), and amendments thereto.\n(b) Blackmail as defined in:\n(1) Subsection (a)(1) is a severity level 7, nonperson felony; and\n(2) subsection (a)(2) is a severity level 4, person felony.","path":["Chapter 21.—CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS","Article 54.—CRIMES AGAINST PERSONS"],"source_url":"https://www.ksrevisor.gov/statutes/chapters/ch21/021_054_0028.html","current_through":"2025 legislative session","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-04T15:11:10Z","sha256":"bd285e1b19c618ca1c54defe5dab674c5f668b7acb9950fc65113ec11b1aabcb","source_id":"us-ks","stale":false,"prev":"us-ks/k.s.a.-21-5427","next":"us-ks/k.s.a.-21-5429"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}