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      "id": "learn_r373_new_mexico_privacy_and_image_law_for_creators_373_new_mexico_privacy_and_image_law_for_creators_anchor_ch30",
      "category": "Safety",
      "title": "[Unverified - being checked] New Mexico Statutes Annotated 1978: Chapter 30 - Criminal Offenses (anchor)",
      "summary": "[Unverified - being checked] The official NMSA 1978 site (NMOneSource.com, New Mexico Compilation Commission) publishes Chapter 30 NMSA 1978 under the title 'Chapter 30 - Criminal Offenses'; its text is the chapter PDF linked from this index page.",
      "body": "The official NMSA 1978 site (NMOneSource.com, New Mexico Compilation Commission) publishes Chapter 30 NMSA 1978 under the title 'Chapter 30 - Criminal Offenses'; its text is the chapter PDF linked from this index page.\n\nWhat New Mexico Compilation Commission (NMSA 1978 on NMOneSource.com) actually says:\n\n“Chapter 30 - Criminal Offenses - NMOneSource.com”\n\nNote: Anchor record: official statute site (Compilation Commission). The statute text itself is only published there as a chapter PDF.",
      "source_type": "official",
      "source_link": "https://nmonesource.com/nmos/nmsa/en/item/4371/index.do",
      "last_verified": "2026-10-18",
      "reliability": "STRONG PRACTICE",
      "source_tier": "A",
      "source_publisher": "New Mexico Compilation Commission (NMSA 1978 on NMOneSource.com)",
      "evidence_quote": "Chapter 30 - Criminal Offenses - NMOneSource.com",
      "volatility": "low",
      "from_batch": "373-new-mexico-privacy-and-image-law-for-creators",
      "subject": "New Mexico Statutes Annotated 1978",
      "topic": "Chapter 30 - Criminal Offenses (anchor)",
      "applies_to_country": "US",
      "applies_to_scope": "NM",
      "tags": {
        "lane": "any",
        "stage": "setting_up",
        "region": [
          "us-nm"
        ],
        "platform": "any",
        "topic": [
          "unclassified"
        ],
        "explicitness": "any"
      },
      "verification": {
        "status": "unverified",
        "label": "Unverified - being checked",
        "reasons": [
          "legal_fetch_over_cap"
        ],
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      }
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      "id": "learn_r373_new_mexico_privacy_and_image_law_for_creators_373_new_mexico_privacy_and_image_law_for_creators_ncii",
      "category": "Safety",
      "title": "[Unverified - being checked] NMSA 1978, 30-37A-1: Criminal law on non-consensual intimate images",
      "summary": "[Unverified - being checked] NMSA 30-37A-1: the criminal offence of unauthorized distribution of sensitive images; misdemeanor, fourth degree felony on a second or later conviction.",
      "body": "NMSA 30-37A-1: the criminal offence of unauthorized distribution of sensitive images; misdemeanor, fourth degree felony on a second or later conviction.\n\nWhat New Mexico Compilation Commission (NMSA 1978 on NMOneSource.com) actually says:\n\n“Whoever commits unauthorized distribution of sensitive images is guilty of a misdemeanor. Upon a second or subsequent conviction, the offender is guilty of a fourth degree felony.”\n\nNote: Criminal only. See the absence record for a civil remedy.",
      "source_type": "official",
      "source_link": "https://nmonesource.com/nmos/nmsa/en/4371/1/document.do",
      "last_verified": "2026-10-18",
      "reliability": "STRONG PRACTICE",
      "source_tier": "A",
      "source_publisher": "New Mexico Compilation Commission (NMSA 1978 on NMOneSource.com)",
      "evidence_quote": "Whoever commits unauthorized distribution of sensitive images is guilty of a misdemeanor. Upon a second or subsequent conviction, the offender is guilty of a fourth degree felony.",
      "volatility": "low",
      "from_batch": "373-new-mexico-privacy-and-image-law-for-creators",
      "subject": "NMSA 1978, 30-37A-1",
      "topic": "Criminal law on non-consensual intimate images",
      "applies_to_country": "US",
      "applies_to_scope": "NM",
      "tags": {
        "lane": "any",
        "stage": "setting_up",
        "region": [
          "us-nm"
        ],
        "platform": "any",
        "topic": [
          "unclassified"
        ],
        "explicitness": "any"
      },
      "verification": {
        "status": "unverified",
        "label": "Unverified - being checked",
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      "id": "learn_r373_new_mexico_privacy_and_image_law_for_creators_373_new_mexico_privacy_and_image_law_for_creators_abs_civil_nci",
      "category": "Safety",
      "title": "[Unverified - being checked] NMSA 1978, Chapter 41 and 30-37A-1: Civil remedy for non-consensual intimate images: none found in the statutes",
      "summary": "[Unverified - being checked] Article 37A of Chapter 30 (30-37A-1, the only section) creates a crime and an exemption for interactive computer services, with no civil cause of action, statutory damages figure, attorney-fee clause or limitation period; Chapter 41 (Torts) has no intimate-image remedy.",
      "body": "Article 37A of Chapter 30 (30-37A-1, the only section) creates a crime and an exemption for interactive computer services, with no civil cause of action, statutory damages figure, attorney-fee clause or limitation period; Chapter 41 (Torts) has no intimate-image remedy.\n\nWhat New Mexico Compilation Commission (NMSA 1978 on NMOneSource.com) actually says:\n\n“ARTICLE 7 Libel and Slander 41-7-1. [Limitation of tort actions based on single publication or utterance; damages recoverable.] No person shall have more than one cause of action for damages for libel or slander or invasion of privacy or any other tort founded upon any single publication or exhibition”\n\nNote: ABSENCE RECORD (inferred from the headings/sections of the code read, not from operative text). Index searched: NMSA 1978 Chapter 30 Article 37A and Chapter 41 (Torts) article headings and the PDF text for 'sensitive images', 'intimate', 'revenge', 'deepfake' on 2026-10-18. Common-law invasion-of-privacy claims may be available; no case law was read.",
      "source_type": "official",
      "source_link": "https://nmonesource.com/nmos/nmsa/en/4382/1/document.do",
      "last_verified": "2026-10-18",
      "reliability": "CREATOR STRATEGY",
      "source_tier": "A",
      "source_publisher": "New Mexico Compilation Commission (NMSA 1978 on NMOneSource.com)",
      "evidence_quote": "ARTICLE 7 Libel and Slander 41-7-1. [Limitation of tort actions based on single publication or utterance; damages recoverable.] No person shall have more than one cause of action for damages for libel or slander or invasion of privacy or any other tort founded upon any single publication or exhibition",
      "volatility": "medium",
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      "subject": "NMSA 1978, Chapter 41 and 30-37A-1",
      "topic": "Civil remedy for non-consensual intimate images: none found in the statutes",
      "applies_to_country": "US",
      "applies_to_scope": "NM",
      "tags": {
        "lane": "any",
        "stage": "setting_up",
        "region": [
          "us-nm"
        ],
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        "topic": [
          "unclassified"
        ],
        "explicitness": "any"
      },
      "verification": {
        "status": "unverified",
        "label": "Unverified - being checked",
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          "legal_fetch_over_cap"
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      "id": "learn_r373_new_mexico_privacy_and_image_law_for_creators_373_new_mexico_privacy_and_image_law_for_creators_harass",
      "category": "Safety",
      "title": "[Unverified - being checked] NMSA 1978, 30-3A-2: Harassment",
      "summary": "[Unverified - being checked] NMSA 30-3A-2: harassment is knowingly pursuing a pattern of conduct intended to annoy, seriously alarm or terrorize another person that serves no lawful purpose and would cause a reasonable person substantial emotional distress; a misdemeanor.",
      "body": "NMSA 30-3A-2: harassment is knowingly pursuing a pattern of conduct intended to annoy, seriously alarm or terrorize another person that serves no lawful purpose and would cause a reasonable person substantial emotional distress; a misdemeanor.\n\nWhat New Mexico Compilation Commission (NMSA 1978 on NMOneSource.com) actually says:\n\n“Harassment consists of knowingly pursuing a pattern of conduct that is intended to annoy, seriously alarm or terrorize another person and that serves no lawful purpose. The conduct must be such that it would cause a reasonable person to suffer substantial emotional distress. B. Whoever commits harassment is guilty of a misdemeanor.”\n\nNote: New Mexico has no separate 'cyber-harassment' statute in Chapter 30; online conduct is reached through this section and 30-3A-3.",
      "source_type": "official",
      "source_link": "https://nmonesource.com/nmos/nmsa/en/4371/1/document.do",
      "last_verified": "2026-10-18",
      "reliability": "STRONG PRACTICE",
      "source_tier": "A",
      "source_publisher": "New Mexico Compilation Commission (NMSA 1978 on NMOneSource.com)",
      "evidence_quote": "Harassment consists of knowingly pursuing a pattern of conduct that is intended to annoy, seriously alarm or terrorize another person and that serves no lawful purpose. The conduct must be such that it would cause a reasonable person to suffer substantial emotional distress. B. Whoever commits harassment is guilty of a misdemeanor.",
      "volatility": "low",
      "from_batch": "373-new-mexico-privacy-and-image-law-for-creators",
      "subject": "NMSA 1978, 30-3A-2",
      "topic": "Harassment",
      "applies_to_country": "US",
      "applies_to_scope": "NM",
      "tags": {
        "lane": "any",
        "stage": "setting_up",
        "region": [
          "us-nm"
        ],
        "platform": "any",
        "topic": [
          "unclassified"
        ],
        "explicitness": "any"
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      "verification": {
        "status": "unverified",
        "label": "Unverified - being checked",
        "reasons": [
          "legal_fetch_over_cap"
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      "category": "Safety",
      "title": "[Unverified - being checked] NMSA 1978, 30-3A-3: Stalking, including online conduct",
      "summary": "[Unverified - being checked] NMSA 30-3A-3: stalking is knowingly pursuing a pattern of conduct directed at a specific individual intending to place the person in reasonable apprehension of death, bodily harm, sexual assault, confinement or restraint; 'pattern of conduct' covers two or more acts by 'any action, method, device or means' that follow, monitor, surveil, threaten or communicate to or about a person.",
      "body": "NMSA 30-3A-3: stalking is knowingly pursuing a pattern of conduct directed at a specific individual intending to place the person in reasonable apprehension of death, bodily harm, sexual assault, confinement or restraint; 'pattern of conduct' covers two or more acts by 'any action, method, device or means' that follow, monitor, surveil, threaten or communicate to or about a person.\n\nWhat New Mexico Compilation Commission (NMSA 1978 on NMOneSource.com) actually says:\n\n“\"pattern of conduct\" means two or more acts, on more than one occasion, in which the alleged stalker by any action, method, device or means, directly, indirectly or through third parties, follows, monitors, surveils, threatens or communicates to or about a person.”\n\nNote: The words 'any action, method, device or means ... communicates to or about a person' are what reach online stalking.",
      "source_type": "official",
      "source_link": "https://nmonesource.com/nmos/nmsa/en/4371/1/document.do",
      "last_verified": "2026-10-18",
      "reliability": "STRONG PRACTICE",
      "source_tier": "A",
      "source_publisher": "New Mexico Compilation Commission (NMSA 1978 on NMOneSource.com)",
      "evidence_quote": "\"pattern of conduct\" means two or more acts, on more than one occasion, in which the alleged stalker by any action, method, device or means, directly, indirectly or through third parties, follows, monitors, surveils, threatens or communicates to or about a person.",
      "volatility": "low",
      "from_batch": "373-new-mexico-privacy-and-image-law-for-creators",
      "subject": "NMSA 1978, 30-3A-3",
      "topic": "Stalking, including online conduct",
      "applies_to_country": "US",
      "applies_to_scope": "NM",
      "tags": {
        "lane": "any",
        "stage": "setting_up",
        "region": [
          "us-nm"
        ],
        "platform": "any",
        "topic": [
          "unclassified"
        ],
        "explicitness": "any"
      },
      "verification": {
        "status": "unverified",
        "label": "Unverified - being checked",
        "reasons": [
          "legal_fetch_over_cap"
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      "id": "learn_r373_new_mexico_privacy_and_image_law_for_creators_373_new_mexico_privacy_and_image_law_for_creators_stalkpen",
      "category": "Safety",
      "title": "[Unverified - being checked] NMSA 1978, 30-3A-3: Stalking: penalty",
      "summary": "[Unverified - being checked] NMSA 30-3A-3(C): stalking is a misdemeanor, a fourth degree felony on a second or later conviction.",
      "body": "NMSA 30-3A-3(C): stalking is a misdemeanor, a fourth degree felony on a second or later conviction.\n\nWhat New Mexico Compilation Commission (NMSA 1978 on NMOneSource.com) actually says:\n\n“Whoever commits stalking is guilty of a misdemeanor. Upon a second or subsequent conviction, the offender is guilty of a fourth degree felony.”",
      "source_type": "official",
      "source_link": "https://nmonesource.com/nmos/nmsa/en/4371/1/document.do",
      "last_verified": "2026-10-18",
      "reliability": "STRONG PRACTICE",
      "source_tier": "A",
      "source_publisher": "New Mexico Compilation Commission (NMSA 1978 on NMOneSource.com)",
      "evidence_quote": "Whoever commits stalking is guilty of a misdemeanor. Upon a second or subsequent conviction, the offender is guilty of a fourth degree felony.",
      "volatility": "low",
      "from_batch": "373-new-mexico-privacy-and-image-law-for-creators",
      "subject": "NMSA 1978, 30-3A-3",
      "topic": "Stalking: penalty",
      "applies_to_country": "US",
      "applies_to_scope": "NM",
      "tags": {
        "lane": "any",
        "stage": "setting_up",
        "region": [
          "us-nm"
        ],
        "platform": "any",
        "topic": [
          "unclassified"
        ],
        "explicitness": "any"
      },
      "verification": {
        "status": "failed",
        "label": "Unverified - being checked",
        "reasons": [
          "hollow_body",
          "strong_label_on_weak_content"
        ],
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      "id": "learn_r373_new_mexico_privacy_and_image_law_for_creators_373_new_mexico_privacy_and_image_law_for_creators_sah",
      "category": "Safety",
      "title": "[Unverified - being checked] New Mexico Secretary of State: Safe at Home address confidentiality program",
      "summary": "[Unverified - being checked] The New Mexico Secretary of State's Safe at Home program lets survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault or stalking receive mail at the Secretary of State's address as a substitute for their own.",
      "body": "The New Mexico Secretary of State's Safe at Home program lets survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault or stalking receive mail at the Secretary of State's address as a substitute for their own.\n\nWhat New Mexico Secretary of State actually says:\n\n“The Secretary of State’s Safe at Home program (formerly known as the Confidential Address Program) allows survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault or stalking to receive mail using the Secretary of State’s address as a substitute for their own, while keeping their actual address confidential.”\n\nNote: Administered by the Secretary of State. The statute is the Confidential Substitute Address Act, 40-13B-1 to 40-13B-9.",
      "source_type": "official",
      "source_link": "https://www.sos.nm.gov/safe-at-home/",
      "last_verified": "2026-10-18",
      "reliability": "STRONG PRACTICE",
      "source_tier": "A",
      "source_publisher": "New Mexico Secretary of State",
      "evidence_quote": "The Secretary of State’s Safe at Home program (formerly known as the Confidential Address Program) allows survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault or stalking to receive mail using the Secretary of State’s address as a substitute for their own, while keeping their actual address confidential.",
      "volatility": "medium",
      "from_batch": "373-new-mexico-privacy-and-image-law-for-creators",
      "subject": "New Mexico Secretary of State",
      "topic": "Safe at Home address confidentiality program",
      "applies_to_country": "US",
      "applies_to_scope": "NM",
      "tags": {
        "lane": "any",
        "stage": "setting_up",
        "region": [
          "us-nm"
        ],
        "platform": "any",
        "topic": [
          "unclassified"
        ],
        "explicitness": "any"
      },
      "verification": {
        "status": "unverified",
        "label": "Unverified - being checked",
        "reasons": [
          "legal_fetch_over_cap"
        ],
        "checked_utc": "20261021-123916Z"
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    {
      "id": "learn_r373_new_mexico_privacy_and_image_law_for_creators_373_new_mexico_privacy_and_image_law_for_creators_sahstat",
      "category": "Safety",
      "title": "[Unverified - being checked] NMSA 1978, 40-13B-4: Confidential Substitute Address Act: what the Secretary of State does",
      "summary": "[Unverified - being checked] NMSA 40-13B-4: the Secretary of State certifies applicants, designates a confidential substitute address that state and local agencies use in place of the participant's address, and forwards mail.",
      "body": "NMSA 40-13B-4: the Secretary of State certifies applicants, designates a confidential substitute address that state and local agencies use in place of the participant's address, and forwards mail.\n\nWhat New Mexico Compilation Commission (NMSA 1978 on NMOneSource.com) actually says:\n\n“(b) designate a confidential substitute address that shall be used in place of the participant's residential or delivery address by state and local government agencies;”\n\nNote: The program is for a victim of domestic violence as defined in the Act (40-13B-3(A)). The statute binds agencies; it does not say a business filing may use the substitute address.",
      "source_type": "official",
      "source_link": "https://nmonesource.com/nmos/nmsa/en/4375/1/document.do",
      "last_verified": "2026-10-18",
      "reliability": "STRONG PRACTICE",
      "source_tier": "A",
      "source_publisher": "New Mexico Compilation Commission (NMSA 1978 on NMOneSource.com)",
      "evidence_quote": "(b) designate a confidential substitute address that shall be used in place of the participant's residential or delivery address by state and local government agencies;",
      "volatility": "low",
      "from_batch": "373-new-mexico-privacy-and-image-law-for-creators",
      "subject": "NMSA 1978, 40-13B-4",
      "topic": "Confidential Substitute Address Act: what the Secretary of State does",
      "applies_to_country": "US",
      "applies_to_scope": "NM",
      "tags": {
        "lane": "any",
        "stage": "setting_up",
        "region": [
          "us-nm"
        ],
        "platform": "any",
        "topic": [
          "unclassified"
        ],
        "explicitness": "any"
      },
      "verification": {
        "status": "unverified",
        "label": "Unverified - being checked",
        "reasons": [
          "legal_fetch_over_cap"
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      "id": "learn_r373_new_mexico_privacy_and_image_law_for_creators_373_new_mexico_privacy_and_image_law_for_creators_llcaddr",
      "category": "Safety",
      "title": "[Unverified - being checked] NMSA 1978, 53-19-8: Address a New Mexico LLC must put in its articles of organization",
      "summary": "[Unverified - being checked] NMSA 53-19-8(B): the articles of organization must give the street address of the initial registered office, the name of the registered agent, and the street address of the LLC's current principal place of business if different.",
      "body": "NMSA 53-19-8(B): the articles of organization must give the street address of the initial registered office, the name of the registered agent, and the street address of the LLC's current principal place of business if different.\n\nWhat New Mexico Compilation Commission (NMSA 1978 on NMOneSource.com) actually says:\n\n“the street address of the initial registered office and the name of the initial registered agent at that address and the street address of the limited liability company's current principal place of business, if different from the address of its registered office;”\n\nNote: A registered agent can be a business or an individual New Mexico resident (53-19-5), so a commercial registered agent's street address can be the public address; that is a statutory reading, not a Secretary of State statement.",
      "source_type": "official",
      "source_link": "https://nmonesource.com/nmos/nmsa/en/4400/1/document.do",
      "last_verified": "2026-10-18",
      "reliability": "STRONG PRACTICE",
      "source_tier": "A",
      "source_publisher": "New Mexico Compilation Commission (NMSA 1978 on NMOneSource.com)",
      "evidence_quote": "the street address of the initial registered office and the name of the initial registered agent at that address and the street address of the limited liability company's current principal place of business, if different from the address of its registered office;",
      "volatility": "low",
      "from_batch": "373-new-mexico-privacy-and-image-law-for-creators",
      "subject": "NMSA 1978, 53-19-8",
      "topic": "Address a New Mexico LLC must put in its articles of organization",
      "applies_to_country": "US",
      "applies_to_scope": "NM",
      "tags": {
        "lane": "any",
        "stage": "setting_up",
        "region": [
          "us-nm"
        ],
        "platform": "any",
        "topic": [
          "unclassified"
        ],
        "explicitness": "any"
      },
      "verification": {
        "status": "unverified",
        "label": "Unverified - being checked",
        "reasons": [
          "legal_fetch_over_cap"
        ],
        "checked_utc": "20261021-123916Z"
      }
    },
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      "id": "learn_r373_new_mexico_privacy_and_image_law_for_creators_373_new_mexico_privacy_and_image_law_for_creators_agent",
      "category": "Safety",
      "title": "[Unverified - being checked] NMSA 1978, 53-19-5: Registered office and agent for an LLC",
      "summary": "[Unverified - being checked] NMSA 53-19-5(A): a New Mexico LLC must maintain a registered office (which may be its principal place of business) and a registered agent for service of process, who is a New Mexico resident individual or a business with a place of business at the registered office.",
      "body": "NMSA 53-19-5(A): a New Mexico LLC must maintain a registered office (which may be its principal place of business) and a registered agent for service of process, who is a New Mexico resident individual or a business with a place of business at the registered office.\n\nWhat New Mexico Compilation Commission (NMSA 1978 on NMOneSource.com) actually says:\n\n“A limited liability company shall maintain in New Mexico: (1) a registered office that may be the same as the limited liability company's principal place of business; and (2) a registered agent for service of process on the limited liability company that is either: (a) an individual resident of New Mexico;”",
      "source_type": "official",
      "source_link": "https://nmonesource.com/nmos/nmsa/en/4400/1/document.do",
      "last_verified": "2026-10-18",
      "reliability": "STRONG PRACTICE",
      "source_tier": "A",
      "source_publisher": "New Mexico Compilation Commission (NMSA 1978 on NMOneSource.com)",
      "evidence_quote": "A limited liability company shall maintain in New Mexico: (1) a registered office that may be the same as the limited liability company's principal place of business; and (2) a registered agent for service of process on the limited liability company that is either: (a) an individual resident of New Mexico;",
      "volatility": "low",
      "from_batch": "373-new-mexico-privacy-and-image-law-for-creators",
      "subject": "NMSA 1978, 53-19-5",
      "topic": "Registered office and agent for an LLC",
      "applies_to_country": "US",
      "applies_to_scope": "NM",
      "tags": {
        "lane": "any",
        "stage": "setting_up",
        "region": [
          "us-nm"
        ],
        "platform": "any",
        "topic": [
          "unclassified"
        ],
        "explicitness": "any"
      },
      "verification": {
        "status": "failed",
        "label": "Unverified - being checked",
        "reasons": [
          "hollow_body",
          "strong_label_on_weak_content"
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