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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.
The laws vary slightly from state to state, with Queensland's laws having the broadest scope, and South Australian laws the most restrictive. Punishments vary from a maximum of 10 years imprisonment in some states, to a fine for the lowest severity of stalking in others. Australian anti-stalking laws have some notable features.
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."
(The Center Square) – Around a dozen new laws go into effect Jan. 1 making changes to Illinois’ criminal justice system. Beginning New Year’s Day, law enforcement training will have a course ...
The tangentially related crime of "Menacing By Stalking" was introduced as a new charge in some states following the popularization of laws specifically targeting stalking behavior, in which a perpetrator adopts a long-term pattern of actions designed to frighten and harass a victim while still adhering to the letter of existing harassment laws.
The Illinois Compiled Statutes (ILCS) are the codified statutes of a general and permanent nature of Illinois. [1] [2] The compilation organizes the general Acts of Illinois into 67 chapters arranged within 9 major topic areas. [3]
Image credits: kdavva74 #5. August 15, 2002, Michael and Mary Short of Oak Level, VA, were shot in the head while sleeping in separate rooms. (He slept apart from her due to his snoring.)
[10] [11] A women's advocate, she lobbied for the passage of 1993's Illinois Stalking Law [12] and the Lautenberg Amendment of 1996, a domestic violence offender gun ban. Murphy-Milano authored Defending Our Lives: Getting Away From Domestic Violence & Staying Safe , published by Doubleday , released in September 1996 to coincide with National ...