{"data":{"id":"us-ks/k.s.a.-21-5515","jurisdiction":"us-ks","citation":"K.S.A. 21-5515","heading":"Sexual extortion.","body":"(a) Sexual extortion is communicating by any means a threat to injure the property or reputation of a person, commit violence against a person, or distribute an image, video or other recording of a person that is of a sexual nature or depicts such person in a state of nudity:\n(1) With the intent to coerce such person to: (A) Engage in sexual contact, sexual intercourse or conduct that is of a sexual nature; or (B) produce, provide or distribute an image, video or other recording of a person in a state of nudity or engaging in conduct that is of a sexual nature; or\n(2) that causes such person to: (A) Engage in sexual contact, sexual intercourse or conduct that is of a sexual nature; or (B) produce, provide or distribute an image, video or other recording of a person in a state of nudity or engaging in conduct that is of a sexual nature.\n(b) Sexual extortion as defined in:\n(1) Subsection (a)(1) is a severity level 7, person felony; and\n(2) subsection (a)(2) is a severity level 4, person felony.\n(c) This section shall be a part of and supplemental to the Kansas criminal code.","path":["Chapter 21.—CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS","Article 55.—SEX OFFENSES"],"source_url":"https://www.ksrevisor.gov/statutes/chapters/ch21/021_055_0015.html","current_through":"2025 legislative session","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-04T15:11:10Z","sha256":"0045387bce1d1c814454fd39c6dad5fba56254daff019e069e9abeb6f3267f1b","source_id":"us-ks","stale":false,"prev":"us-ks/k.s.a.-21-5514","next":"us-ks/k.s.a.-21-5601"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}