WESLACO, Texas (ValleyCentral) — One of the hundreds of laws adopted by Texas recently creates a state jail felony if someone knowingly possesses, accesses with the intent to view, or promotes obscene visual material containing a depiction that appears to be of a child younger than 18 years of age..."

For SB20, statutes define obscene as, "the average person, applying contemporary community standards, would find that taken as a whole, appeals to the prurient interest in sex," contains, "patently offensive representations or descriptions," of sexual acts and, "taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic, political, and scientific value," among other criteria.

Legislators sought to stay ahead of the rapidly changing pace of technology by outlawing images of children in sexual situat

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