Illinois Stalking Laws
Amended 2002
Stalking
A person commits stalking when he or she, knowingly and without lawful justification, on at least 2 separate occasions, follows another person or places the person under surveillance or any combination thereof and:
(1) at any time transmits a threat of immediate or future bodily harm, sexual assault, confinement or restraint and the threat is directed towards that person or a family member of that person; or
(2) places that person in reasonable apprehension of immediate or future bodily harm, sexual assault, confinement or restraint; or
(3) places that person in reasonable apprehension that a family member will receive immediate
or future bodily harm, sexual assault, confinement, or restraint.
Cyberstalking
A person commits cyberstalking when he or she, knowingly and without lawful justification, on at least 2 separate occasions, harasses* another person through the use of electronic communication** and:
(1) at any time transmits a threat of immediate or future bodily harm, sexual assault, confinement, or restraint and the threat is directed towards that person or a family member of that person, or
(2) places that person or a family member of that person in reasonable apprehension of immediate or future bodily harm, sexual assault, confinement, or restraint.
*As used in this Section: Harass means to engage in a knowing and willful course of conduct directed at a specific person that alarms, torments, or terrorizes that person.
** Electronic communication means any transfer of signs, signals, writings, sounds, data, or intelligence of any nature transmitted in whole or in part by a wire, radio, electronmagnetic, photoelectric, or photo-optical system. Electronic communication includes transmissions by a computer through the Internet to another computer.
For more info:
Exact legislation available online at -
http://www.legis.state.il.us/
