Okla. Stat. tit. 21 § 1173.1

Current through Laws 2024, c. 453.

Section 1173.1 - Stalking Warning Letter

A. Whenever a law enforcement agency receives a complaint of stalking and finds that such conduct has occurred, the law enforcement agency shall be required to provide a copy of a Stalking Warning Letter to the accused provided that the victim does not otherwise request that such letter not be served upon the accused. The Stalking Warning Letter shall be served upon the accused in the same manner as a bench warrant. If the service is to be in another county, the court clerk may issue service to the sheriff by facsimile or other electronic transmission for service by the sheriff and may receive the return of service from the sheriff in the same manner.

B. The following statutory form of the Stalking Warning Letter, as required by the provisions of subsection A of this section, shall be utilized by law enforcement agencies throughout the state:

__________________________________COUNTY, STATE OF OKLAHOMA CITY OF _______________________________

RE:_________________________________________________________________

(COMPLAINANT)

Stalking Warning Letter served to: _________________________________

_________________________________

(HOME ADDRESS)

_________________________________

(DATE OF BIRTH)

The __________________________ has recently investigated a complaint

(LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY)

about your behavior towards the above-named individual.

The behavior you have engaged in could be interpreted as "stalking" as provided for in Section 1173 of Title 21 of the Oklahoma Statutes. Stalking can be described as intentionally engaging in a course of conduct directed at a specific person that would cause a reasonable person under the same circumstances to suffer serious emotional distress, or place the specific person in reasonable fear of bodily injury. Your behavior has induced such fear or distress in the above-named individual.

Oklahoma law makes stalking a crime. The __________________________

(LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY)

takes this law very seriously.

Please consider this a formal warning that any future conduct by you towards the above-named individual could result in arrest by law enforcement and prosecution by the ______________________County District Attorney's Office.

_______________________________________________

Print name of Chief of Law Enforcement Agency

_______________________________________________

Signature of Chief of Law Enforcement Agency

Served in hand __________________

(DATE)

by _______________________________

(NAME OF OFFICER)

On behalf of the ____________________________________

(LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY)

at __________________________________________________

(LOCATION)

Okla. Stat. tit. 21, § 1173.1

Added by Laws 2022 , c. 318, s. 3, eff. 11/1/2022.