parnass@ihu1h.UUCP (Bob Parnass, AJ9S) (01/30/86)
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My local Illinois Bell telephone directory (for Oswego,
Illinois) contains this warning:
WARNING
Illinois law defines harassment as the use of the
telephone to make lewd or indecent comment or
request with intent to offend....to abuse,
threaten, or harass (whether conversation takes
place or not)...to cause another's telephone to
ring repeatedly with intent to harass...to know-
ingly allow one's telephone to be used for any of
these purposes.
The law provides a penalty of up to six months in
jail and/or a $500 fine.
> > Perhaps I'm missing something (not being a net.legal reader, and having to
> > put up with a remarkably sporadic news feed), but do these calls fit the
> > *legal* definition of a "harassing call"? From what I seem to remember,
> > they don't, but then I'm frequently wrong. Anybody here know?
> >
> I've fallen into this class. It's a grey area as to what is harassing,
> but it is almost certain that if someone tells you that you are harassing
> them, and you continue to do it, that you are harassing them.
>
> -Ron
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