Cyberharassment is when someone uses phones, computers, the internet, or other electronic devices to repeatedly contact another person in a scary or threatening way, with no good reason, causing that person real fear or stress. The first time someone is caught doing this, it is a smaller crime. If they do it again, it becomes a more serious crime.
Classifications stated in the statute. Actual outcomes vary.
565.400. Cyberharassment, of — . — 1. A person commits the offense of cyberharassment if such person or engages in a threatening, aggressive, or otherwise fear-inducing, by using digital technology, internet providers, electronic service providers, or other electronic communications and devices to reasonable fear, alarm, anxiety, undue stress, or terror to others by repeated contact with no purpose.
2. The first offense of cyberharassment shall be a . A second and any subsequent offense shall be a .
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Source & history notes
(L. 2026 H.B. 2637 & 3155 merged with S.B. 999) Effective 7-01-27, see § 565.019 Nonseverability clause, see § 1.1008 Severability clause, see § 1.1005
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