Cyberstalking

The Cyberstalking law criminalizes harassing and threatening behavior, on at least two separate occasions, made via electronic communication and:
1.
at any time transmits a threat of immediate bodily harm, sexual assault, confinement or restraint;
2.
places that person or a family member of that person in reasonable apprehension of immediate bodily harm, sexual assault, confinement, or restraint; or
3.
at any time knowingly solicits the commission of an act by any person.
A person also commits cyberstalking when he or she knowingly, surreptitiously, and without lawful justification installs or places electronic monitoring software or spyware on an electronic communication device as a means to harass another person and:
1.
at any time transmits a threat of immediate bodily harm, sexual assault, confinement or restraint;
2.
places that person or a family member of that person in reasonable apprehension of immediate bodily harm, sexual assault, confinement, or restraint; or
3.
at any time solicits the commission of an act by any person.
Further, a person who creates and maintains a website for at least 24 hours that contains statements harassing another person and: includes a threat of immediate or future bodily harm, sexual assault, confinement, or restraint directed toward another person; and which places the person or family member of that person in reasonable apprehension of immediate or future harm; and which knowingly solicits the commission of an act by any person, is also a violation.
Cyberstalking is a Class 4 felony. A second or subsequent conviction is a Class 3 felony.