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      "id": "learn_r276_wisconsin_video_recording_and_obscenity_statutes_wisconsin_statutes_anchor",
      "category": "Safety",
      "title": "[Unverified - being checked] Wisconsin Statutes: official code index",
      "summary": "[Unverified - being checked] Wisconsin's official statutes are published by the Legislative Reference Bureau",
      "body": "Wisconsin's official statutes are published by the Legislative Reference Bureau\n\nWhat Wisconsin Legislature actually says:\n\n“Updated 2023-24 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations  Published September 4, 2026. Certified under s. 35.18.  Updated through 2025 Wisconsin Act 247 and through all Orders of the Controlled Substances Board affecting Chapter 961 and Supreme Court Orders filed before and in effect on September 4, 2026.”\n\nNote: This is the anchor record for the batch, showing the official Wisconsin Statutes index page from the legislature's secure document server.",
      "source_type": "official",
      "source_link": "https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/statutes/prefaces/toc",
      "last_verified": "2026-09-24",
      "reliability": "VERIFIED RULE",
      "source_tier": "A",
      "source_publisher": "Wisconsin Legislature",
      "evidence_quote": "Updated 2023-24 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations  Published September 4, 2026. Certified under s. 35.18.  Updated through 2025 Wisconsin Act 247 and through all Orders of the Controlled Substances Board affecting Chapter 961 and Supreme Court Orders filed before and in effect on September 4, 2026.",
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      "id": "learn_r276_wisconsin_video_recording_and_obscenity_statutes_wisconsin_recording_statute",
      "category": "Safety",
      "title": "[Unverified - being checked] Wisconsin Chapter 968: one-party consent for recording audio",
      "summary": "[Unverified - being checked] Wisconsin is a one-party consent state for recording audio; section 968.31(2)(b) permits interception where one party has given prior consent",
      "body": "Wisconsin is a one-party consent state for recording audio; section 968.31(2)(b) permits interception where one party has given prior consent\n\nWhat Wisconsin Legislature actually says:\n\n“For a person acting under color of law to intercept a wire, electronic or oral communication, where the person is a party to the communication or one of the parties to the communication has given prior consent to the interception.”\n\nNote: Section 968.31(2)(b) explicitly permits one-party consent. Wisconsin is a one-party consent state, unlike all-party consent states. A two-person shoot in Wisconsin does not need both parties' consent to record audio; only one party's consent suffices.",
      "source_type": "official",
      "source_link": "https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/document/statutes/968.31",
      "last_verified": "2026-09-24",
      "reliability": "VERIFIED RULE",
      "source_tier": "A",
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      "evidence_quote": "For a person acting under color of law to intercept a wire, electronic or oral communication, where the person is a party to the communication or one of the parties to the communication has given prior consent to the interception.",
      "volatility": "low",
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      "subject": "Wisconsin Chapter 968",
      "topic": "one-party consent for recording audio",
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          "us-wi"
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      "id": "learn_r276_wisconsin_video_recording_and_obscenity_statutes_wisconsin_video_voyeurism",
      "category": "Safety",
      "title": "[Unverified - being checked] Wisconsin statutes: video voyeurism or unlawful surveillance",
      "summary": "[Unverified - being checked] No specific video voyeurism statute found in the Wisconsin Statutes index",
      "body": "No specific video voyeurism statute found in the Wisconsin Statutes index\n\nWhat Wisconsin Legislature actually says:\n\n“TABLE OF CONTENTS  Sovereignty, Jurisdiction and Civil Divisions of the State.  1. Sovereignty and jurisdiction of the state.  2. Division of the state into counties, and their boundaries.  3. Congressional districts.  4. Senate and assembly districts.  Elections.  5. Elections — general provisions; ballots and voting systems.”\n\nNote: Searched Wisconsin's code index for 'video voyeurism', 'surveillance unlawful', and 'privacy voyeur camera'. No matches found. Chapter 948 (Crimes Against Children) and Chapter 944 (Crimes Against Sexual Morality) were examined. No specific video voyeurism or unlawful surveillance provision identified. Confidence is contested because absence inferred from index search.",
      "source_type": "official",
      "source_link": "https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/statutes/prefaces/toc",
      "last_verified": "2026-09-24",
      "reliability": "STRONG PRACTICE",
      "source_tier": "A",
      "source_publisher": "Wisconsin Legislature",
      "evidence_quote": "TABLE OF CONTENTS  Sovereignty, Jurisdiction and Civil Divisions of the State.  1. Sovereignty and jurisdiction of the state.  2. Division of the state into counties, and their boundaries.  3. Congressional districts.  4. Senate and assembly districts.  Elections.  5. Elections — general provisions; ballots and voting systems.",
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      "id": "learn_r276_wisconsin_video_recording_and_obscenity_statutes_wisconsin_ncii",
      "category": "Safety",
      "title": "[Unverified - being checked] Distribution reaching synthetic or altered depictions",
      "summary": "[Unverified - being checked] Wisconsin §948.125 addresses possession of virtual child pornography including computer-generated depictions of purported children",
      "body": "Wisconsin §948.125 addresses possession of virtual child pornography including computer-generated depictions of purported children\n\nWhat Wisconsin Legislature actually says:\n\n“\"Depiction of a purported child\" means a visual representation that appears to depict an actual child but may or may not depict an actual child.  \"Obscene material\" means a photograph, film, motion picture, or digital or computer-generated image or picture, whether made or produced by electronic, mechanical, or other means, that satisfies all of the following:  1. The average person, applying contemporary community standards, would find appeals to the prurient interest if taken as a whole.”\n\nNote: §948.125 (enacted 2023 Wis. Act 224) specifically reaches synthetic/computer-generated images of purported children. No standalone non-consensual intimate image distribution statute was found beyond child pornography provisions.",
      "source_type": "official",
      "source_link": "https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/document/statutes/948.125",
      "last_verified": "2026-09-24",
      "reliability": "VERIFIED RULE",
      "source_tier": "A",
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      "evidence_quote": "\"Depiction of a purported child\" means a visual representation that appears to depict an actual child but may or may not depict an actual child.  \"Obscene material\" means a photograph, film, motion picture, or digital or computer-generated image or picture, whether made or produced by electronic, mechanical, or other means, that satisfies all of the following:  1. The average person, applying contemporary community standards, would find appeals to the prurient interest if taken as a whole.",
      "volatility": "low",
      "from_batch": "276-wisconsin-video-recording-and-obscenity-statutes",
      "subject": "Wisconsin non-consensual intimate image distribution",
      "topic": "distribution reaching synthetic or altered depictions",
      "applies_to_country": "US",
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        "stage": "first_month",
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          "rules.content"
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        "explicitness": "explicit_solo"
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        "label": "Unverified - being checked",
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      "id": "learn_r276_wisconsin_video_recording_and_obscenity_statutes_wisconsin_obscenity",
      "category": "Safety",
      "title": "[Unverified - being checked] Wisconsin Chapter 944 Subchapter IV: obscenity definitions and distribution offence",
      "summary": "[Unverified - being checked] §944.21 defines obscene material and performance and criminalizes distribution for commercial purposes",
      "body": "§944.21 defines obscene material and performance and criminalizes distribution for commercial purposes\n\nWhat Wisconsin Legislature actually says:\n\n“\"Obscene material\" means a writing, picture, film, or other recording that:  1. The average person, applying contemporary community standards, would find appeals to the prurient interest if taken as a whole;  2. Under contemporary community standards, describes or shows sexual conduct in a patently offensive way; and  3. Lacks serious literary, artistic, political, educational or scientific value, if taken as a whole.”\n\nNote: §944.21(3) criminalizes importing, printing, selling, possessing for sale, publishing, exhibiting, playing, or distributing obscene material for commercial purposes. Penalty: Class A forfeiture for first offense; Class A misdemeanor with one prior conviction; Class H felony with two or more priors or for wholesale transfer/distribution.",
      "source_type": "official",
      "source_link": "https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/document/statutes/944.21",
      "last_verified": "2026-09-24",
      "reliability": "VERIFIED RULE",
      "source_tier": "A",
      "source_publisher": "Wisconsin Legislature",
      "evidence_quote": "\"Obscene material\" means a writing, picture, film, or other recording that:  1. The average person, applying contemporary community standards, would find appeals to the prurient interest if taken as a whole;  2. Under contemporary community standards, describes or shows sexual conduct in a patently offensive way; and  3. Lacks serious literary, artistic, political, educational or scientific value, if taken as a whole.",
      "volatility": "low",
      "from_batch": "276-wisconsin-video-recording-and-obscenity-statutes",
      "subject": "Wisconsin Chapter 944 Subchapter IV",
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      "id": "learn_r276_wisconsin_video_recording_and_obscenity_statutes_wisconsin_indecent_exposure",
      "category": "Safety",
      "title": "[Unverified - being checked] Wisconsin §948.10: indecent exposure or public lewdness reaching filmed performance",
      "summary": "[Unverified - being checked] §948.10 criminalizes exposing genitals, pubic area, or intimate parts to a child for sexual arousal or gratification",
      "body": "§948.10 criminalizes exposing genitals, pubic area, or intimate parts to a child for sexual arousal or gratification\n\nWhat Wisconsin Legislature actually says:\n\n“Whoever, for purposes of sexual arousal or sexual gratification, causes a child to expose genitals, pubic area, or intimate parts or exposes genitals, pubic area, or intimate parts to a child is guilty of the following:  (1) (a) Except as provided in par. (b), a Class I felony.”\n\nNote: §948.10(1)(a) is a Class I felony. §948.10(1)(b) makes it a Class A misdemeanor if the actor is a child or within 4 years older than the child (under 19). §948.10(2) exempts spouse and breast-feeding. Note from annotation: this section applies only to face-to-face contact, not remote exposures over the Internet.",
      "source_type": "official",
      "source_link": "https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/document/statutes/948.10",
      "last_verified": "2026-09-24",
      "reliability": "VERIFIED RULE",
      "source_tier": "A",
      "source_publisher": "Wisconsin Legislature",
      "evidence_quote": "Whoever, for purposes of sexual arousal or sexual gratification, causes a child to expose genitals, pubic area, or intimate parts or exposes genitals, pubic area, or intimate parts to a child is guilty of the following:  (1) (a) Except as provided in par. (b), a Class I felony.",
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      "topic": "indecent exposure or public lewdness reaching filmed performance",
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      "id": "learn_r276_wisconsin_video_recording_and_obscenity_statutes_wisconsin_right_of_publicity",
      "category": "Safety",
      "title": "[Unverified - being checked] Wisconsin right of publicity: commercial appropriation provision",
      "summary": "[Unverified - being checked] No standalone right of publicity or commercial-appropriation statute found in Wisconsin's official statutes",
      "body": "No standalone right of publicity or commercial-appropriation statute found in Wisconsin's official statutes\n\nWhat Wisconsin Legislature actually says:\n\n“TABLE OF CONTENTS  ...  132 Trademarks, badges and labeled products.  133 Trusts and monopolies.  134 Miscellaneous trade regulations.”\n\nNote: Searched Wisconsin's code index for 'right of publicity' and 'commercial appropriation'. No matches found. Chapter 132 covers trademarks but no standalone right of publicity statute was identified. Confidence: contested because absence inferred from index search only.",
      "source_type": "official",
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      "last_verified": "2026-09-24",
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      "evidence_quote": "TABLE OF CONTENTS  ...  132 Trademarks, badges and labeled products.  133 Trusts and monopolies.  134 Miscellaneous trade regulations.",
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