Using Community Collaboration to Provide Support Services to

Using Community Collaboration to Provide Support Services to Victims of Online Abuse and “Revenge Porn” Holly Jacobs, Ph. D, Founder, President, Executive Director Cyber Civil Rights Initiative Daniel De Vries, Director of Helpline Services

Cyber Civil Rights Initiative CCRI’s 4 -pronged approach Public Education & Raising Awareness Legislative Support & Advocacy Tech Outreach & Consulting Victim Services Crisis Helpline: (844)-878 -2274

Switchboard 2 -1 -1 Switchboard partners with community service providers (including CCRI)

Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs

Switchboard 2 -1 -1 Switchboard partners with community service providers (including CCRI) Specialty training enhances all services and Helpline Counselor expertise Additional benefits of these relationships (e. g. , expands network to valuable contacts such as Facebook, Twitter, documentary producers)

abuse Online Harassment Repeated online expression amounting to a “course of conduct” targeted at a particular person that causes the targeted individual substantial emotional distress (Citron, 2014) Online Stalking “…targeted at a particular person causing that person to fear for his or her physical safety. ” Online bullying AKA cyberbullying When children/young adolescents involved

abuse Nonconsensual pornography (NCP): the distribution of private, sexually explicit images of individuals without their consent. Revenge Porn- the distribution of private, sexually explicit images of individuals with the purpose of humiliating/intimidating the subject who has broken off a relationship or has acted in a way that the perpetrator finds unacceptable. Recorded Sexual Assault (RSA)-when a rapist records their attack to further humiliate their victim and/or discourage them from reporting the sexual assault Sextortion-Threats to expose a sexual image in

Victim Blaming Aka “Secondary Victimization” “What were you thinking when you took those pictures? ” Similar to: “Sexually assaulted? Well, what were you wearing? ”

NCP: A Timeline 2012 Amanda Todd 2016 Leslie Jones 2013 Holly Jacobs, CCRI 2017 US Marines 2014 “Celebgate” including Jennifer Lawrence 2017 Mischa Barton 2015 Tech companies take action 2017 Amanda Seyfried, Demi Lovato, Emma Watson

Progress Made 37 states & DC now have laws Federal legislation has been introduced Private firms and companies have stepped up Attorneys Cyber Civil Rights Legal Project (K&L Gates) www. Cyber. Rights. Project. com 27 attorneys cybercivilrights. org/professionals-helping-victims/ Takedown Services DMCA Defender, DMCA. com, Copybyte Tech Companies

Providing Support to Victims Safety First Victim Support NCP Victims: 844 -878 -CCRI (2274) Online Harassment Victims- Heartmob: iheartmob. org Documentation Legal Options Takedown Options

www. Cyber. Civil. Rights. org holly@cybercivilrights. org jcsfl. org/services/switchboard-211 ddevries@jcsfl. org