Invasive Visual Recording
Texas Invasive Visual Recording Law
Other
Criminalizes non-consensual photography or video of intimate areas or of people in bathrooms, changing rooms, and similar private places, and promoting such recordings. Posted signs alone do not establish consent to recording in private places.
- Where
- Texas
- Citation
- Tex. Penal Code 21.15
- Status
- In force
- In force since
- 2001-09-01
- Last amended
- 2025-09-01
- Enforced by
- State prosecutors
- People can sue
- No
- Penalties
- State jail felony (21.15(c)).
- Applies to
- Any person who records, broadcasts, or transmits images of another's intimate areas or of a person in a place with a reasonable expectation of privacy, without consent and with intent to invade privacy (21.15(b))
What a privacy notice must say
- A posted sign saying people are being recorded does not by itself establish consent for recording in private places.Tex. Penal Code 21.15(e)
Practices it requires
- Do not record, broadcast, or transmit images of another's intimate areas, or of a person in a bathroom, changing room, or similar private place, without consent.Tex. Penal Code 21.15(b)(1)-(2)
Sources
- Official text
- Tex. Penal Code ch. 21 (Texas Legislature, Texas Constitution and Statutes)
- Tex. Penal Code ch. 21, statute text file served by the Texas Legislative Council
Checked against these sources on 2026-09-24 by research agent (Claude), primary sources.
Unverified: Content of the 2025 amendments (H.B. 1465) was not reviewed in detail.
Research reference, not legal advice.