This alerts law enforcement to the fact that harassment is occurring. If there is an existing restraining order forbidding contact, the police may use the report as grounds for bringing the harasser into court for violation of the restraining order. Police reports can also be used to file complaints with the government authority that oversees telecommunications and with the phone company.
Options for handling text harassment can include deactivating text functions, as well as changing a phone number and keeping the new number as confidential as possible. These options may not appeal to people experiencing harassment because they may have reasons to keep their phone numbers or to keep texting enabled.
If a phone company offers selective text or phone number blocking, this is the easiest and most direct solution. The statute that concerns sending messages is Kansas Statute , and it's referred to harassment by telecommunication device. Under the law, a telecommunication device includes telephones, cell phones, or any other electronic device capable of sending communications.
The statute prohibits people from knowingly sending texts that abuse, threaten, or harass another person. Referring back to the earlier hypothetical situation, the person you were messaging could report you for text harassment because you said you were going to commit some offense against them because they weren't responding.
The law does not just prohibit individuals from sending harassing, threatening, or abusive text messages. It also makes various other types of conduct involving telecommunications devices illegal. The law provides that it is unlawful to send texts or images that someone else might consider:. Additionally, a person could be accused of this crime for making harassing calls.
For example, say after you sent the text to the other person, you still didn't get a reply. You have a right to change your mind about your feelings so never feel bad about that. Hope you find the courage to eventually talk to your parents, I bet they will be more understanding than you think.
Best of Luck! Then he says he has friends in the police department place. I told him sorry that he is crazy but it was not his right to get me out like that. They will kick me out of the house and have nothing to do with me. Someone randomly gave me my first name, my discord username, and told me that they are always watching me, i need some help. I did not put any private info anywhere visible.
I recodnize them from small clues they gave me, but i did not want this person having my personal cell phone number that i think was given out by my freind. Please i need help. Got a threat from a person claimig he was going through academy soon.
Youtube name is The Legendary one, has made threats and conduct unbecoming of an officer of law. Actually he posted the threat on a police network channel no less. Any help would be appreciated. Iam harassing by someone with different us number s and fake Facebook account text MSG's and my pics are with him he is blackmailing me he want some money otherwise he will put my pics in internet plzzz help me what should I do.
So i was just scrolling threw facebook and looking at people that went to school with me and adding them not even caring just adding well about twenty minutes in i got two texts fdom diffrent girls saying they are going to beat my arse but other word because i facebook friend their boyfriend.
Hi my sister and her friends have been harassing me on facebook but the thing is i'm not on face book i had to go off face book cause i would block her and she would start up another face book under the name of a guy called ritchie campbell to harass my friends. I'M in the Music Industry so i meet well known people well some of these people would go on my husbands face book and and say something nice about me or my sister would fake fake under her fake profile which my I T Guy from work found out it was her and my friend started up a personal face book celebrity and he mentions me my sister and her friends start thinking its me.
Ive been experiencing harrassment from my girlfriend and its giving me a stress depression metal torture what can i do? She texted me in chinese and one of the worst texts is" if you dare to pretend to be pathetic, using others, love and help. I don't think or know you can help but: someone is sending pictures of naked women.
I have tried but do not see a call back number. I guess nothing can be done if I can not find out how to stop it - cant stop it if unknown how it started. In California you basically have to be in the intensive care with multiple broken bones and and on a ventilator before a judge will give you a restraining order.
I reported to the police harassing and threatening text messages and showed them - police does nothing. In NYC. My family is harming me and saying I should go home with them when i said no i choose my kids first! There no proof of my partner hitting me and my sisters and her bf just want me be single mom and live with them!
Deborah and Tracy my sisters do not like my partner! I told them my kids come first and they keep saying my "mum" would be ashamed of me just because im caring mum to my kids.
I want it to stop because I'm pregnant and my sisters are stressing me out and so is my Sisters bf.. Even tho there is no proof of that!
He been arrested today and I fed up and just want to sort this out. My ex has a mother that is out of this world.
She texts me every day calling me names and giving me her unwanted opinions that she has because she has been made peivvy to intimate details of my marriage that she should have never had any knowledge of.
I have never responded and I have tried blocking her from my telephone several times and reporting it as spam. It continues. Just this morning I got a text because I refuse to file taxes with an emotionally abusive man, and it is in the best interest of myself and my family of I do not spend a day with him. How do I end this? He constantly telling me I have to send to claim money.
Try telling him I don't have it. I'm victim of 2 scams he won't stop until I say OK I send it. I block his number from calling only to get back to back text telling me how bad a person I am. What can I do?
These kids are harassing me saying their gonna beat me up and they constantly keep calling my phone. I responded to an online ad for something and when it appeared I was no longer interested, they said they have high security clearance and can can contact any of my family members and my job stating they know where I work, even though it was never brought up.
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