Section 132Q-10-244 - Sexually violent conduct Sexually violent conduct includes the following: Domestic violence, dating violence, stalking, nonconsensual sexual intercourse, and nonconsensual sexual contact. This conduct also includes, but is not limited to, indecent liberties, sexual exploitation, indecent exposure, sexual exhibitionism, sex-based cyberharassment, prostitution or the solicitation of a prostitute, peeping or other voyeurism, or exceeding the boundaries of consent including allowing others to view consensual sex, the nonconsensual posting or recording of sexual activity, domestic violence, dating violence, and stalking.
(1)Domestic violence: (a) Physical harm, bodily injury, assault, or the infliction of fear of imminent body harm, bodily injury or assault, between family or household members; (b) sexual assault of one family or household member by another; or (c) stalking of one family or household member by another family or household member. Pursuant to chapter 10.99 RCW, it also includes, but is not limited to, the following crimes when committed by one family or household member against another: Assault; drive-by shooting; reckless endangerment; coercion; burglary; criminal trespass, malicious mischief; kidnapping; unlawful imprisonment; and violation of a restraining order, no-contact order or protection order.(2)Dating violence (aka relationship violence) is a type of domestic violence, except the acts are committed by a person who is or has been in a social relationship of a romantic or intimate nature with the victim.(3)Stalking is intentional and repeated harassment or repeated following of another person, which places that person in reasonable fear that the stalker intends to injure the person, another person, or the property of the person or another person, and the stalker either intends to frighten, intimidate, or harass the person, or knows or reasonably should know that the person is frightened, intimidated or harassed, even if the stalker lacks such an intent.(4)Cyberstalking is when a person, with the intent to harass, intimidate, torment or embarrass any other person makes an electronic communication including, but not limited to, electronic mail, internet-based communications (social media sites and electronic bill boards), pager service, or instant messaging using (a) any lewd, lascivious, indecent, or obscene words, images or language, or suggesting the commission of any lewd or lascivious act; (b) anonymously or repeatedly whether or not conversation occurs; or (c) threatening to inflict injury on the person or property of the person called or any member of his or her family or household.(5)Nonconsensual sexual intercourse means any penetration; of the vagina or anus however slight, by an object, when committed on one person by another, whether such persons are of the same or opposite sex, except when such penetration is accomplished for medically recognized treatment or diagnostic purposes; and any act of sexual contact between persons involving the sex organs of one person and the mouth or anus of another whether such persons are of the same or opposite sex without consent and/or by force.(6)Nonconsensual sexual contact means any intentional touching of the sexual or other intimate parts of a person done for the purpose of gratifying sexual desire of either party or a third party, however slight, without consent and/or by force. Sexual touching includes any bodily contact with the breasts, groin, mouth, or other bodily orifice of another individual, or any bodily contact in a sexual manner.(7)Indecent liberties means knowingly causing sexual contact with a person by forcible compulsion or when the person is incapable of consent by reason of mental defect, mental incapacitation, or physical helplessness. Sexual contact is defined as any nonconsensual touching of the sexual or other intimate parts of a person done for the purpose of gratifying the sexual desire of either party.(8)Consent means the affirmative, unambiguous, and voluntary agreement to engage in a specific sexual activity during a sexual encounter. Any individual who engages in sexual activity when the individual knows, or should know, that the other person is physically or mentally incapacitated, has engaged in nonconsensual conduct. Consent cannot be given by an individual who is: (a) Asleep or mentally or physically incapacitated, either through the effect of drugs, alcohol, or for any other reason; or (b) under the lawful age to provide legal consent; or (c) has an intellectual or other disability which prevents him or her from having the capacity to consent; or (d) under duress, threat, coercion or force. Intoxication is not a defense against allegations that an individual has engaged in nonconsensual conduct.(9)Voyeurism is arousing or gratifying sexual desire by viewing, photographing, or filming another person without that person's knowledge and consent and/or while the person being viewed, photographed, or filmed is in a place where he or she has a reasonable expectation of privacy. It also includes the distribution of a recording of sexual activity.Wash. Admin. Code § 132Q-10-244
Adopted by WSR 15-15-161, Filed 7/21/2015, effective 8/21/2015