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NY A10944
Bill
Status
8/17/2020
Primary Sponsor
Michael Reilly
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AI Summary
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Creates new Penal Law § 120.65 establishing the crime of stalking a police officer, peace officer, correction officer, or firefighter when someone intentionally selects such a person based on their employment status or their immediate family member's employment status.
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Requires that the stalking be committed with intent to harass, annoy, or alarm the targeted person through a course of conduct likely to cause reasonable fear of physical injury, serious physical injury, sex offense, kidnapping, unlawful imprisonment, or death.
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Allows the course of conduct to be conducted in person or electronically, including through social media networks.
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Classifies stalking a police officer, peace officer, correction officer, or firefighter as a class A misdemeanor.
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Takes effect sixty days after becoming law.
Legislative Description
Establishes the crime of stalking a police officer, peace officer, correction officer or firefighter to include intent to harass, annoy or alarm a police officer, peace officer, correction officer, firefighter or an immediate family member of a police officer, peace officer, correction officer or firefighter, intentionally engaging in a course of conduct directed at such person which is likely to cause such person to reasonably fear physical injury or serious physical injury, the commission of a sex offense against, or the kidnapping, unlawful imprisonment or death of such person or a member of such person's immediate family.
Last Action
referred to codes
8/17/2020