On June 4, 2013, Laws gave testimony before the California State Senate in favor of SB 255, a law designed to protect victims from revenge porn or "cyber rape," a term Laws coined. The bill was sponsored by State Senator Anthony Cannella of Modesto, CA and it was signed into law on October 1, 2013, making California the second state (after New Jersey) to pass a law designed to help victims of nonconsensual pornography. Until 2018, Laws was a board member of the Cyber Civil Rights Initiative (CCRI), an organization dedicated to helping victims of online harassment. Since 2012, Laws has been meeting with state and federal legislators, urging them to pass laws to protect victims. Today, 46 states and Washington D.C. have anti-revenge porn laws, and Rep Jackie Speier (CA) introduced a federal bill in July 2016 called the Intimate Privacy Protection Act, but nothing happened with it. Then in 2017, Speier and several other legislators, introduced the Ending Nonconsensual Online User Graphic Harassment (ENOUGH) Act., Nothing happened with this. Then, a federal bill called The SHIELD Act (Stopping Harmful Image Exploitation and Limiting Distribution) was introduced in 2019.