Assembly Bill A867

                             
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                                    867
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 8, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of A. GLICK, EACHUS -- read once and referred to the
   Committee on Codes
 
 AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to including certain  use  of
   Bluetooth  technology  to  follow a person in the crime of stalking in
   the fourth degree

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1.  Section 120.45 of the penal law, as amended by chapter 184
 of the laws of 2014, is amended to read as follows:
 § 120.45 Stalking in the fourth degree.
   A  person  is guilty of stalking in the fourth degree when [he or she]
 SUCH PERSON intentionally, and for no legitimate purpose, engages  in  a
 course of conduct directed at a specific person, and knows or reasonably
 should know that such conduct:
   1. is likely to cause reasonable fear of material harm to the physical
 health,  safety  or  property  of such person, a member of such person's
 immediate family or a third party with whom such person  is  acquainted;
 or
   2.  causes  material  harm  to  the mental or emotional health of such
 person, where such conduct consists of following, telephoning or  initi-
 ating  communication  or  contact  with  such  person,  a member of such
 person's immediate family or a third party  with  whom  such  person  is
 acquainted,  and the actor was previously clearly informed to cease that
 conduct; or
   3. is likely to cause such person to reasonably fear that [his or her]
 SUCH PERSON'S employment, business or career is threatened,  where  such
 conduct  consists  of appearing, telephoning or initiating communication
 or contact at such person's place of employment  or  business,  and  the
 actor was previously clearly informed to cease that conduct.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD03028-01-5
              

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   For the purposes of subdivision two of this section, "following" shall
 include the unauthorized tracking of such person's movements or location
 through the use of a global positioning system, BLUETOOTH TECHNOLOGY, or
 other device.
   Stalking in the fourth degree is a class B misdemeanor.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.