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New York bars civil restraining orders against a stalker who isn’t your ex. A bill on Hochul’s desk would change that.

NY's CREEP Act expanding anti-stalking protections to online victims and coworkers has passed the legislature June 5 and awaits Gov. Hochul's signature.

Official portrait of Kathy Hochul, smiling, in a gray suit in front of an American flag
Gov. Kathy Hochul, whose signature would determine whether the stalking restraining-order bill becomes law. U.S. Congress (public domain) via Wikimedia Commons

New York bars civil restraining orders against a stalker who isn’t your ex. A bill on Hochul’s desk would change that.

NY's CREEP Act expanding anti-stalking protections to online victims and coworkers has passed the legislature June 5 and awaits Gov. Hochul's signature.

New York bars civil restraining orders against a stalker who isn’t your ex. A bill on Hochul’s desk would change that.
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If a stranger starts following you in New York, gets into your Uber, learns your address, and leaves roses at your door, the courts can do nothing until it turns into a crime. A New York model named Lameka Fox lived exactly that and filed three police reports. The answer she got, she told CBS New York, was a question: “Are you sure it’s not someone you dated, because that’s the only way they would be able to attempt to investigate or offer a protective order.” She had not dated him. So the law had nothing for her. A bill that just cleared the State Legislature, now sitting on Gov. Kathy Hochul’s desk, would end that.

The legislation is called the “Ceasing Repeated and Extremely Egregious Predatory Behavior” Act, the CREEP Act for short (bill numbers S.3394A and A3226A). It creates a new civil order of…

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Filed underAndrew Gounardes / Anti-Stalking / Brooklyn / CREEP Act / Kathy Hochul / new york state / New York State Legislature / Online Harassment

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