AI porn incident at central Pa. school leads to proposed changes in reporting law

By Ashley Stalnecker, LNP, Lancaster, Pa . (TNS)

Three Lancaster County lawmakers are working on legislation that would require school administrators to report the discovery of any artificially generated sexually explicit images depicting minors, regardless of whether the perpetrator is a minor.

The push to create such legislation comes in the wake of a high-profile case at Lancaster Country Day School , a private school where two male students were charged in December 2024 with creating and sharing hundreds of altered images and videos depicting dozens of their classmates in sexually explicit situations.

The cases have not yet gone to trial. In August, Erik Yabor, spokesperson for the Lancaster County District Attorney’s office, said the investigation was ongoing into the ch