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Patrick Yoes

National president of the 377,000-member Fraternal Order of Police

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Unfortunately, AI has increasingly made it difficult to discern between a real or a manufactured image, adding to the trauma experienced by victims.

Patrick Yoes

National president of the 377,000-member Fraternal Order of Police

In a January 2025 letter, Patrick Yoes wrote that AI makes real and manufactured images harder to distinguish, adding to the trauma experienced by victims of nonconsensual intimate imagery.

National President of the Fraternal Order of PoliceJanuary 23, 2025Fraternal Order of Police letter to Senators Ted Cruz and Amy Klobuchar

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… we once had to recognize the dangers of images being circulated without consent online alone, our attention must additionally turn to the distribution of manipulated or entirely faked images generated by artificial intelligence (AI). Unfortunately, AI has increasingly made it difficult to discern between a real or a manufactured image, adding to the trauma experienced by victims. Your bill would protect victims from harassment, intimidation, and exploitation by holding accountable the individuals who publish or intend to publish non-consensual intimate imagery (NCII) as well as requiring websites to remove NCII

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  • The sentence appears in an organizational advocacy letter supporting the TAKE IT DOWN Act, written by Yoes on behalf of Fraternal Order of Police members.

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I am writing on behalf of the members of the Fraternal Order of Police to advise you of our support for S. 146, the “Tools to Address Known Exploitation by Immobilizing Technological Deepfakes on Websites and Network (TAKE IT DOWN) Act.”

Patrick Yoes

National president of the 377,000-member Fraternal Order of Police

In a January 2025 letter, Patrick Yoes endorsed the TAKE IT DOWN Act on behalf of the Fraternal Order of Police, saying it would require websites to remove nonconsensual intimate images manipulated or generated by AI.

National President of the Fraternal Order of PoliceJanuary 23, 2025Fraternal Order of Police letter to Senators Ted Cruz and Amy Klobuchar

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Klobuchar United States Senate Washington, D.C. 20510 Dear Senators Cruz and Klobuchar, I am writing on behalf of the members of the Fraternal Order of Police to advise you of our support for S. 146, the “Tools to Address Known Exploitation by Immobilizing Technological Deepfakes on Websites and Network (TAKE IT DOWN) Act.” Our agencies need clarified and expanded authorities in order to combat the ever-evolving threat posed by “deepfake” technology which can generate and distribute nude and sexually exploitative images.

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  • Yoes expressly wrote on behalf of the Fraternal Order of Police's members; the endorsement is an organizational position conveyed by its national president.
  • The letter addresses AI-generated or manipulated nonconsensual intimate imagery and sexual exploitation; it does not make a broader claim about all deepfakes or AI systems.

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