Yup - once again creating laws that have far reaching consequences because of the actions of a particular person. When I was an EMT we had to sign non disclosure papers to protect patients rights. This EMT or paramedic was clearly in violation of the laws that protect patient privacy (HIPPA) - so punish this person - take away their license but do not bog down the law books with unnecessary bunk. I thought FL cornered the market on these types of laws but I guess not. I guess all those pictures out there of deceased Elvis are now illegal contraband? Possession of a photo of a corpse? Hey they can use the same letters for this crime - CP = Corpse Photos

Maybe the viewing of a photo of a dead corpse is so traumatizing to the other family members that they feel victimized and re-victimized every time it is viewed.

Maybe the family should seek restitution for everyone that viewed the image of the dead body. Maybe the family does not want all those pictures viewed by everyone when they appear in the newspaper or wherever.

Nobody really wants a picture of their loved one in a dead state. It reminds them of their grief they suffer as a result of their loss.

If the family is totally re-victimized when the image is shown to others against their wishes, they should seek restitution and claim the viewers are a "proximate" cause of their anguish.

I know I am being sarcastic, but if it works for CP victims, then maybe it should work for other victims.

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I'm in the movie industry and some people use these images for their sculpting projects. It's kind of gruesome but they do.
There are places that use dead bodies that are left to them for forensic science, like putting them in a certain contained area outside to see how the corpses decay. These are also used by the police forensics labs to compare against bodies found dead.

And what of the news that will photograph people at crime scenes. You see those on the news websites.

Good luck with this one.

Do we start going thru books to see if any corpse photos are in them. Book burning can become popular again. I know Dillinger's photo of his dead body is online>
http://tinyurl.com/pjmffuo

Morticians would be corpse contact crimes?

i actually have no problem with this being a law... i don't know how they are wording it but if it could be refined to clearly state that no identifying features are to be depicted by rescuers and or media it could be a decent law.

the tragedy of death is bad enough but to see a photo of a family member, loved one or a friend's death plastered in the paper, on the news or floating around social media is really rather disgusting. and it it shows blood and gore it's 100 times more horrific. it's thoughtless, inconsiderate and cruel.

i hadn't been a member of my local vol fire dept very long when a friend and a man well known by many crashed and was killed. he was driving a van with tool boxes in the back that were not bolted down or even strapped down. one of the larger tool boxes flew forward and impacted the back of his skull, pretty much crushing it. the reporter from the local paper managed to get in the back of the van and was about to take a picture of the guy slumped over the steering wheel and his crushed skull with all the blood and bits of mangled brain when the woman in charge of the first responder squad caught him and jerked the camera out of his hands. the fire chief escorted him away and a country sheriff ordered him to stay away from the van. working that accident was heart breaking and it tore a good many of us up and had us in tears. it was bad enough for us. if that reporter had managed to get any pics, how much more pain would they have caused to many, many more people who knew him? those who called him friend or family, if they had been published? quite a few letters were sent to the paper. from the fire fighters who worked that accident, condemning that reporters actions. one of the letters was from our fire company that the secretary and signed by almost every member of the company. and it changed our policy concerning reporters.

so yeah, i can see the sense in a law pertaining picture taking of the dead.

Then are you going to somehow take all the photos off the internet? And if you download one will you be prosecuted? What if I own a book that has a corpse photo in it? Because I do. I use them for sculpting projects.

I'm sorry but this is Vicky all over again.

this is something that doesn't necessarily need to go retroactive. but something needs to change on how those that have been killed are portrayed.

it doesn't have to include pics taken by family members.

but no one needs or wants the added agony of seeing the pic of a murdered or suicide (d) loved one in the news or on social media.

I agree with you Echo - but punish the jerk that did this not make it a blanket law - we have too many knee jerk laws - our legislation in the country is starting to be run by emotions