Article: PIECE OF CAKE: New York statute punishes harassing calls or threats

Campo, Antonio C.
Filipino Reporter
03-14-2002
"A person is guilty of aggravated harassment in the second degree when,
with intent to harass, annoy, threaten or alarm another person, he or she
commits certain specific acts by mechanical or electronic means x x x."

-- Section 240.30, Penal Law and Criminal Procedure Law of New York State

READERS who are offended by the columns we write, news that we report and
pictorials and cartoons we published, or simply envious of our success,
should think twice before making stupid and harassing telephone calls;
mailing threatening tape recordings; or sending malicious e-mails or
letters to our editorial office.

Unbeknownst to these laymen readers, in New York ...

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