Local meteorologist Bree Smith says she has been a target of deepfake sexualized images and is pushing for harsher punishments for its creators. She says it’s taken a toll on both her and her family to deal with hundreds of fake accounts.
Jack Byrd’s testimony came on the second day of an administrative law judge hearing to determine whether his company should be punished for 62 violations issued by the state department of commerce and insurance, which has a division that certifies law enforcement in the state.
Within that confrontation, a Covenant School mom in the gallery, Sarah Shoop Neumann, left her seat and approached the area where lawmakers were sitting.
Two women had just started walking, both with their dogs, down the Shelby Bottoms Greenway on Tuesday afternoon when they say a man passed them making sexual comments. They ignored it, but an hour later they saw him again this time standing in the woods.
Rep. Brooks named the bill after her son, Akilah Dasilva, who was one of four victims in the 2018 Waffle House shooting in Antioch. She has been fighting for gun reform on a state and national level.
