{
  "batch": "376-new-mexico-age-verification-as-it-lands-on-a-creator",
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    {
      "id": "learn_r376_new_mexico_age_verification_as_it_lands_on_a_creator_376_new_mexico_age_verification_as_it_lands_on_a_creator",
      "category": "Safety",
      "title": "[Unverified - being checked] NMSA 1978, 30-6A-3: Where a participant's age matters most: possession and distribution involving a child under 18",
      "summary": "[Unverified - being checked] NMSA 30-6A-3(A): intentionally possessing an obscene visual or print medium depicting a prohibited sexual act, knowing or having reason to know a participant is under eighteen, is a fourth degree felony; distributing it is a third degree felony (30-6A-3(C)).",
      "body": "NMSA 30-6A-3(A): intentionally possessing an obscene visual or print medium depicting a prohibited sexual act, knowing or having reason to know a participant is under eighteen, is a fourth degree felony; distributing it is a third degree felony (30-6A-3(C)).\n\nWhat New Mexico Compilation Commission (NMSA 1978 on NMOneSource.com) actually says:\n\n“It is unlawful for a person to intentionally possess any obscene visual or print medium depicting any prohibited sexual act or simulation of such an act if that person knows or has reason to know that the obscene medium depicts any prohibited sexual act or simulation of such act and if that person knows or has reason to know that one or more of the participants in that act is a child under eighteen years of age.”\n\nNote: State law that bears on an individual creator is this participant-age rule, not a platform age-verification duty.",
      "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": "It is unlawful for a person to intentionally possess any obscene visual or print medium depicting any prohibited sexual act or simulation of such an act if that person knows or has reason to know that the obscene medium depicts any prohibited sexual act or simulation of such act and if that person knows or has reason to know that one or more of the participants in that act is a child under eighteen years of age.",
      "volatility": "low",
      "from_batch": "376-new-mexico-age-verification-as-it-lands-on-a-creator",
      "subject": "NMSA 1978, 30-6A-3",
      "topic": "Where a participant's age matters most: possession and distribution involving a child under 18",
      "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"
      }
    }
  ]
}