§930 Art. 130. Stalking

Summary

Makes it a crime for someone covered by the law to repeatedly act toward a specific person in a way that would make a reasonable person fear death, serious harm, or sexual assault to them or to someone close to them. The person must have known or should have known their actions would cause that fear. The actions must actually cause the targeted person to reasonably fear death, serious harm, or sexual assault to themselves or to an immediate family member, an intimate partner, or a dating partner. Definitions (one line each): conduct — any kind of behavior, including watching, using the mail, email, social media, or other electronic means; course of conduct — repeated close presence, repeated threats (spoken, written, or implied), or a pattern of repeated acts showing a continued purpose; dating partner — someone in a current or past romantic or intimate social relationship (look at length, type, how often you interacted, and physical intimacy); repeated — two or more occasions; immediate family — spouse, parent, brother, sister, child, someone acting as a parent, or another person who lives with and is related by blood or marriage; intimate partner — a former spouse, someone who shares a child, someone who lives or lived with the person like a spouse, or someone in a romantic relationship judged by length, type, and interaction.