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Cyberstalking is when a person keeps constant track of you online in a way that makes you feel uncomfortable, worried or threatened.
Cyberstalking is the use of digital technology to track and harass someone.
Sometimes cyberstalking starts as over-enthusiastic interest in a person or an invasion of their privacy. But often the intentions are far worse right from the beginning – the person doing the cyberstalking may want to scare, humiliate, coerce or control someone, or harm their credibility or reputation.
Cyberstalking is often accompanied by offline stalking and it can lead to physical danger. Threats of sexual abuse or other forms of physical violence should be reported to the police.
Cyberstalking is often a type of tech-based abuse that is part of domestic and family violence and coercive control, but going offline does not fix the problem. Someone in an abusive relationship or who has left an abusive partner needs to be able to use digital technology, such as a mobile phone or computer, so they can find support and stay in touch with trusted friends and family.
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Stalking: Final Report
This report contains 45 recommendations for stalking law reform. They aim to improve the ways that the justice system treats people who have experienced stalking in a non-family violence context.
The report recommends that victims should have easier access to financial and practical support, such as technology to prevent cyberstalking. Victims should be supported by independent advocates to guide them through every stage, from reporting the stalking activity to accessing support services and any court actions.
The report also recommends improvements to the personal safety intervention order (PSIO) system. The system is currently swamped, so non-family violence stalking matters do not receive the attention they need. The VLRC recommends developing guidance on how to identify and prioritise stalking cases.
Another recommendation calls for the Crimes Act to be amended to make the stalking offence clearer and easier to apply.
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Domestic: stalking a former spouse
This is probably the most common type of stalking where a relationship has broken down b/w intimate partners & one of the partners can’t accept the breakdown of the relationship. These relationships have often lasted years & where they’ve had children together. Unfortunately, the children are often involved & matters can’t be sorted with mediation & so go through the harrowing experience of being heard in the Family Court system.