What is Stalking?
Stalking is engaging in a course of conduct directed at a specific person that would cause a reasonable person to:
- fear for their safety or the safety of others; or
- suffer substantial emotional distress
Course of Conduct – is two or more acts including but not limited to acts in which a person directly, indirectly, or through third parties by any actions, method, device, or means follows, monitors, observes, surveils, threatens, or communicates to or about another person, or interferes with another person’s property.
Substantial emotional distress – is significant mental suffering or anguish that may but does not necessarily require medical or other professional treatment or counseling.
Examples include but are not limited to:
- Repeatedly accessing someone’s online accounts or impersonating them to monitor or interfere with their activities.
- Photographing or recording someone without consent as part of a broader pattern of unwanted surveillance.
- Contacting a person’s friends, classmates, coworkers, or family to gather information about their whereabouts or activities.
- Sending unwanted gifts or letters after being told to stop.
- Creating fake social media accounts to monitor, contact, or harass someone.
- Repeatedly following a student around campus despite being told to stop.
- Waiting outside someone’s classroom, residence hall, workplace, or other locations they frequently visit.
- Sending persistent unwanted texts, emails, direct messages, or calls after the person has asked for no further contact.
If you would like to report an incident of sexual assault, sexual misconduct, sexual harassment, intimate partner violence, stalking, or non-consensual sexual contact, please complete this form.
What can you do?
If you want to report right away or speak with Confidential Resources, there are options for how you decide to move forward.
Report using the Title IX/Sexual Misconduct Student Report Form. This is different than making a Formal Complaint or starting a formal grievance process.
Report to your Community Director, Resident Assistant for immediate support.
Report to University Security/Police.
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*Note: If you are comfortable, ask the person to stop. Write down everything including: what happened, dates and times, what exactly was said or done, who said/did it, and any witnesses who were there. Include as much detail as possible, and keep notes about every time it happens or happened. If it happens again, write down the details while the memory is fresh. Save any emails, texts, letters, or messages about the harassment, or between you and the harasser. Gather them in one place, at home, on a personal email account, or in another safe place not at work. These notes will be helpful if you decide to report in the future. Talk to a lawyer.
You decide what happens next!
- If you choose to report the incident to the University, the Title IX Coordinator will reach out to you to schedule a meeting. This meeting will explain all the support that might be available in your circumstances. You are not obligated to file a formal grievance to access these supports.
- The formal complaint process will also be explained to you. You will decide if you would like to move forward with a formal complaint.