In Greeley and across Weld County, there are three different ways your phone can get you charged with Phone Harassment.
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How is Harassment Charged in Firestone, Colorado?
In Firestone and across Weld County, Harassment – C.R.S. 18-9-111 – is defined as:
(a) Strikes, shoves, kicks, or otherwise touches a person or subjects him to physical contact; or
(b) In a public place directs obscene language or makes an obscene gesture to or at another person; or
(c) Follows a person in or about a public place; or
(d) Repealed.
(e) Directly or indirectly initiates communication with a person or directs language toward another person, anonymously or otherwise, by telephone, telephone network, data network, text message, instant message, computer, computer network, computer system, or other interactive electronic medium in a manner intended to harass or threaten bodily injury or property damage, or makes any comment, request, suggestion, or proposal by telephone, computer, computer network, computer system, or other interactive electronic medium that is obscene; or
(f) Makes a telephone call or causes a telephone to ring repeatedly, whether or not a conversation ensues, with no purpose of legitimate conversation; or
(g) Makes repeated communications at inconvenient hours that invade the privacy of another and interfere in the use and enjoyment of another’s home or private residence or other private property; or
(h) Repeatedly insults, taunts, challenges, or makes communications in offensively coarse language to, another in a manner likely to provoke a violent or disorderly response.
Subsections (e), (f), and (g) are the ones related to phone use. Phone Harassment does not have to strictly be phone calls. It could be related to harassing texts or messages through any app.
Greeley Examples of Phone Harassment
Let’s look at some examples of phone Harassment we have seen in Greeley and Weld County:
- Texting your ex from different phone numbers insulting them and telling them what a horrible person they are.
- Calling a former business partner over and over again, then hanging up every time they pick up just to bother them or annoying them.
- Calling a business over and over again to curse at them for the subpar service you received at your last visit.
- Repeatedly posting on Facebook page commenting on someone else’s looks in a what would be considered obscene language (sexual in nature).
Penalty for Phone Harassment in Weld County
Phone Harassment, charged under subsections (e), (f), or (g), is a class 2 misdemeanor. The penalty for this level misdemeanor is up to 120 days in the Weld County Jail.