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Phoenixphire wrote:
Just a word to all you folk.
Use of sex offender registry information to harass a sex offender is a crime.
Making statements that could be percieved as threats, such as "we need harvest tags" or "someone should take him out back", could be constituted as harassment.
This information is provided so that the public can educate themselves as to the threat.While I have no use those whofind sexual pleasure in the violation of innocence, I do not think that coming here andmaking threats is the proper response, either.
The responsibility to protect ourselves and our families is ours. That is why we carry; that is why we encourage others to carry; that is why we educate ourselves and others.
Please don't degrade yourselves to the level of the scum that you defend against.
Just a word back to you.
The activities of those who have posted to this thread are CONSTITUTIONALLY PROTECTED ACTIVITIES. The postings here cannot be taken as threats or harassment as they were not directed at the person. Even if they were directed at the person, MI Law does not define harassment in this way. It does define harassment under the crime of stalking.
For your reference:
750.411h Stalking; definitions; violation as misdemeanor; penalties; probation; conditions; evidence of continued conduct as rebuttable presumption; additional penalties.
(1) As used in this section:
(a) “Course of conduct” means a pattern of conduct composed of a series of 2 or more separate noncontinuous acts evidencing a continuity of purpose.
(b) “Emotional distress” means significant mental suffering or distress that may, but does not necessarily, require medical or other professional treatment or counseling.
(c) “
Harassment” means conduct directed toward a victim that includes, but is not limited to, repeated or continuing unconsented contact that would cause a reasonable individual to suffer emotional distress and that actually causes the victim to suffer emotional distress.
Harassment does not include constitutionally protected activity or conduct that serves a legitimate purpose.
(d) “Stalking” means a willful course of conduct involving repeated or continuing
harassment of another individual that would cause a reasonable person to feel terrorized, frightened, intimidated, threatened, harassed, or molested and that actually causes the victim to feel terrorized, frightened, intimidated, threatened, harassed, or molested.
(e) “Unconsented contact” means any contact with another individual that is initiated or continued without that individual's consent or in disregard of that individual's expressed desire that the contact be avoided or discontinued.
Unconsented contact includes, but is not limited to, any of the following:
(i) Following or appearing within the sight of that individual.
(ii) Approaching or confronting that individual in a public place or on private property.
(iii) Appearing at that individual's workplace or residence.
(iv) Entering onto or remaining on property owned, leased, or occupied by that individual.
(v) Contacting that individual by telephone.
(vi) Sending mail or electronic communications to that individual.
(vii) Placing an object on, or delivering an object to, property owned, leased, or occupied by that individual.
(f) “Victim” means an individual who is the target of a willful course of conduct involving repeated or continuing
harassment.
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