Stalking amendments.

Plain English Breakdown

The exact details on how to prove someone has used technology to stalk another person are not provided by the official source material.

Amendments to Stalking Laws

This law changes the definition of stalking to include using electronic devices or other technology to watch someone without their permission.

What This Bill Does

• Updates the list of actions considered stalking to include electronic surveillance.
• Makes it a crime to use any kind of electronic means to monitor another person's internet activity or movements.

Who It Names or Affects

• People who stalk others using electronic devices will be punished under the new law.
• Victims of stalking can now seek help from the police if someone uses technology to watch them without permission.

Terms To Know

Surveillance

Watching or monitoring a person's activities, often secretly.

Electronic means

Devices and technologies like computers, phones, GPS systems that can be used to monitor someone.

Limits and Unknowns

• The law does not specify what kind of punishment will be given for breaking this new rule.
• It is unclear how the law will be enforced or if it will cover all types of electronic surveillance.

Official Summary Text

Bill Summary - 22LSO-0404
Bill No.:

SF0100

Effective:

7/1/2022 12:00:00 AM

LSO No.:

22LSO-0404

Enrolled Act No.:

SEA No. 0044

Chapter No.:

98

Prime Sponsor:

Landen

Catch Title:

Stalking amendments.

Subject:

The crime of stalking.

Summary/Major Elements:

This act adds a new paragraph to the stalking statutes that prohibits the use of any device or other electronic means to place another person under surveillance or to surveil another person's internet activity without authorization.

The above summary is not an official publication of the Wyoming Legislature and is not an official statement of legislative intent.

While the Legislative Service Office endeavored to provide accurate information in this summary, it should not be relied upon as a comprehensive abstract of the bill.

Current Bill Text

22LSO-0404

ORIGINAL Senate

File No
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SF0100

ENROLLED ACT NO. 44,

SENATE

SIXTY-SIXTH LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WYOMING
2022 Budget Session

AN ACT relating to crimes and offenses; amending the crime of stalking to include a prohibition on using electronic devices to surveil another person as specified; and providing for an effective date.

Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Wyoming:

Section 1
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W.S. 6
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506(b)(iii), by creating a new paragraph (iv) and by renumbering (iv) as (v) is amended to read:

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506.

Stalking; penalty.

(b)

Unless otherwise provided by law, a person commits the crime of stalking if, with intent to harass another person, the person engages in a course of conduct reasonably likely to harass that person, including but not limited to any combination of the following:

(iii)

Placing a person under surveillance by remaining present outside his or her school, place of employment, vehicle, other place occupied by the person, or residence other than the residence of the defendant;
or

(iv)

Using any electronic, digital or global positioning system device or other electronic means to place another person under surveillance or to surveil another person's internet or wireless activity without authorization from the other person; or

(iv)
(v)

Otherwise engaging in a course of conduct that harasses another person.

Section 2
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This act is effective July 1, 2022
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(END)

Speaker of the House

President of the Senate

Governor

TIME APPROVED: _________

DATE APPROVED: _________

I hereby certify that this act originated in the Senate.

Chief Clerk

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