Arizona to pay costs for challenge to revenge porn law

Arizona has agreed to pay $202,000 in attorneys’ fees and legal costs for a successful challenge that blocked a 2014 state law to make it a crime for jilted lovers to post nude photos of their former partners online.

The state will pay the money under an agreement between Attorney General Mark Brnovich and the American Civil Liberties Union.

A federal judge accepted the agreement Friday after previously approving a settlement that permanently blocked the law.

The ACLU had argued that the law was too broad and could have made criminals out of booksellers, artists, news photographers and even historians.

Enforcement was temporarily put on hold last year after the ACLU sued. The legislative sponsor agreed to make changes, but a new version didn’t win legislative approval last spring.