Standards and rules for the enforcement of this subsection shall be prescribed by the governing board of every school district and such rules shall reflect the community standards for pornographic material available to minors. The secretary of state shall establish rules and regulations for the enforcement of subsection 2 of this section. Any school board member, officer or employee, including library personnel, who willfully neglects or refuses to perform a duty imposed by this section shall be subject to the penalties imposed pursuant to section 162.091, RSMo. A felony , or a prosecution pursuant to section 566.030, RSMo, or section 566.060, RSMo, may be commenced at any time. An offense is committed either when every element occurs, or, if a legislative purpose to prohibit a continuing course of conduct plainly appears, at the time when the course of conduct or the defendant's complicity therein is terminated.
Time starts to run on the day after the offense is committed.
A prosecution is commenced either when an indictment is found or an information filed. A person commits the crime of possession of child pornography if, knowing of its content and character, such person possesses any obscene material that has a child as one of its participants or portrays what appears to be a child as an observer or participant of sexual conduct. The chief law enforcement official shall forward a copy of the registration form required by section 589.407 to a city, town or village law enforcement agency located within the county of the chief law enforcement official, if so requested. Such request may ask the chief law enforcement official to forward copies of all registration forms filed with such official. The chief law enforcement official may forward a copy of such registration form to any city, town or village law enforcement agency, if so requested.