Victoria Burke
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 2 Jun
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Yes, this bill was intended...
It was made by me, who's a survivor, intended to protect survivors when speaking out because I myself had been drugged and sexually assaulted by acquaintance in 2019.
And I had gone to the police and I pursued all the legal channels that I could.
At the time, some of the evidence was lost of the blood and the video evidence had been like...
not recovered in time and was lost.
And it was going to be very hard to move forward as a case.
And I was talking to a friend of mine from law school and she said, you know, be very careful speaking out or telling one, don't use his name, don't use any identifiers because you could be sued for defamation.
And I was confused because I thought,
current defamation laws, as long as you're speaking your truth or opinion, you should be protected.
And she said, please look and see what happened in the wake of MeToo, that there's been a tremendous surge in retaliatory defamation lawsuits, and you could be hit with one.
So I was curious and I started researching.
I'm like, oh, this is really interesting because this was not covered in the press.
And I was noticing many cases were saying it was having a chilling effect on survivors coming forward.
And I had previously been on American Bar Association committees where I drafted legislation.
And I thought, I wonder if I could just adjust the defamation laws to protect survivors when they come forward.
So I spent a year and a half researching
cases and statutes.
And I worked on drafting it and I vetted the bill by various advocacy groups.
And then in the summer of 2022, I proposed it to members of the California legislature.
And within a year, it was passed into law.
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