Stalking is a pattern of repeated and unwanted attention, harassment, contact, or any other course of conduct directed at a specific person that would cause a reasonable person to feel fear.

Stalking can include:

• Repeated, unwanted, intrusive, or frightening communications from the perpetrator by phone, mail, and/or email.
• Repeatedly leaving or sending victim unwanted items, presents, or flowers.
• Following or waiting for the victim at places such as home, school, work, or recreation place.
• Making direct or indirect threats to harm the victim, the victim’s children, relatives, friends, or pets.
• Damaging or threatening to damage the victim’s property.
• Harassing victim through social media or the internet.
• Posting information or spreading rumors about the victim on the internet, in a public place, or by word of mouth.
• Obtaining personal information about the victim by accessing public records, using internet search services, hiring private investigators, going through the victim’s garbage, following the victim, contacting victim’s friends, family work, or neighbors, etc.

If you’re a victim of stalking, Susan B. Anthony Project can provide assistance in the following ways:

• 24-hour crisis line
• safety planning
• counseling
• advocacy with law enforcement and court proceedings

For more information on stalking, go to www.justice.gov/ovw/stalking.