Idaho § 18-6710
Full text of Idaho Idaho Statutes § 18-6710, with citation guidance and answers to common questions.
§ 18-6710.
Use of telecommunication to annoy, terrify, threaten, intimidate, harass, or offend by lewd or profane language, requests, suggestions, or proposals - Threats of physical harm - Disturbing the peace by repeated telecommunication - Penalties. (1) Any person who, with intent to annoy, terrify, threaten, intimidate, harass, or offend, contacts another via telecommunication, email, text message, or any other form of electronic communication and (a) addresses to or about such person any obscene, lewd, or profane language, or makes any request, suggestion, or proposal that is obscene, lewd, lascivious, or indecent; or (b) addresses to such other person any threat to inflict injury or physical harm to the person or property of the person addressed or any member of his family, or any other person; or (c) by repeated anonymous or identified telecommunications, emails, text messages, or any other form of electronic communication whether or not conversation ensues, disturbs the peace or attempts to disturb the peace, quiet, or right of privacy of any person at the place where the telecommunication, email, text message, or any other form of electronic communication is received is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall be sentenced to a term of not to exceed one (1) year in the county jail. Upon a second or subsequent conviction, the defendant shall be guilty of a felony and shall be sentenced to a term of not to exceed five (5) years in the state penitentiary.
(2) The use of obscene, lewd, or profane language or the making of a threat or obscene proposal, or the sending of repeated anonymous telecommunications, emails, text messages, or any other form of electronic communication as set forth in this section may be prima facie evidence of intent to annoy, terrify, threaten, intimidate, harass, or offend.
(3) For the purposes of this section, the term "telecommunication" shall mean the transmission of messages, signals, facsimiles, video images, or other communication between persons who are physically separated from each other by means of telephone, telegraph, cable, wire, or the projection of energy without physical connection.
[18-6710, added 1980, ch. 326, sec. 2, p. 841; am. 1994, ch. 167, sec. 5, p. 376; am. 2024, ch. 253, sec. 1, p. 892.]
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