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A 2021 public service announcement infographic video from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention about stalking. California was the first state to criminalize stalking in the United States in 1990 [89] as a result of numerous high-profile stalking cases in California, including the 1982 attempted murder of actress Theresa Saldana, [90 ...
Violent crime rate per 100k population by state (2023) [1] This is a list of U.S. states and territories by violent crime rate. It is typically expressed in units of incidents per 100,000 individuals per year; thus, a violent crime rate of 300 (per 100,000 inhabitants) in a population of 100,000 would mean 300 incidents of violent crime per year in that entire population, or 0.3% out of the total.
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 Texas man accused of stalking Caitlin Clark was arrested in Indianapolis this weekend after police said he sent numerous threats and sexually explicit messages to the Indiana Fever player ...
This story was updated at 7:50 p.m. Thursday. It has been 28 years since Rep. Kevin Mannix, R-Salem, introduced Oregon stalking laws. On Thursday, he celebrated the overwhelming passage of a new ...
While some sites specialize in laws that protect victims age 18 and under, Working to Halt Online Abuse is a help resource listing current and pending cyberstalking-related United States federal and state laws. [23] It also lists those states that do not have laws yet and related laws from other countries.
Police officers will face fewer barriers to obtaining court orders to protect victims of stalking, under changes announced on Monday. Updated Home Office guidance means officers will no longer ...
The boyfriend loophole was introduced in 1996 with the Lautenberg Amendment, which established stricter gun control restrictions in the United States in order to combat domestic abuse. [2] This law included a definition of an " intimate partner ", who would be prohibited from accessing guns, but it did not encompass certain dating partners.