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A Civil Harassment Restraining Order (CHO) is a form of restraining order or order of protection used in the state of California.It is a legal intervention in which a person who is deemed to be harassing, threatening or stalking another person is ordered to stop, with the goal of reducing risk of further threat or harm to the person being harassed.
Provision is made under the Protection from Harassment Act against stalking to deal with the civil offence (i.e. the interference with the victim's personal rights), falling under the law of delict. Victims of stalking may sue for interdict against an alleged stalker, or a non-harassment order, breach of which is an offence. [citation needed]
In the United States, every state has some form of domestic violence restraining order law, [28] and many states also have specific restraining order laws for stalking [29] and sexual assault. [30] In the US, each state has its own restraining order laws, but they tend to be divided into five main types.
A few states have both stalking and harassment statutes that criminalize threatening and unwanted electronic communications. [46] The first anti-stalking law was enacted in California in 1990, and while all fifty states soon passed anti-stalking laws, by 2009 only 14 of them had laws specifically addressing "high-tech stalking."
A California man pleaded guilty this week to a count of stalking after he sent a woman antisemitic and racist messages over 14 month. Andre Morrow Lackner, 35, sent the messages from June 2021 to ...
The huge concentration of celebrities in Hollywood has resulted in a large number of statutes custom-tailored to the needs of celebrities, such as the California Celebrities Rights Act, as well as the 1990 enactment of the first anti-stalking law anywhere in the United States (which inspired the enactment of similar laws across the country ...
A California man was caught and arrested by police Saturday morning, but not before he managed to elude them for two hours while hiding inside a corn maze. California man arrested after leading ...
California modeled its law after a similar law in the United Kingdom. Governor Gavin Newsom signed the state law in September 2022, and it was to have taken effect on July 1, 2024.