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2 <br />juror, attorney, victim advocate, legislator, or an employee, contract staff person <br />or volunteer of a correctional agency, and the stalker stalked the victim to <br />retaliate against the victim for an act the victim performed during the course of <br />official duties or to influence the victim's performance of official duties; or (6) the <br />stalker's victim is a current, former, or prospective witness in an adjudicative <br />proceeding, and the stalker stalked the victim to retaliate against the victim as a <br />result of the victim's testimony or potential testimony. <br />F. As used in this section: <br />1. "Correctional agency" means a person working for the Department of <br />Natural Resources in a correctional setting or any state, county, or municipally <br />operated agency with the authority to direct the release of the a person serving <br />a sentence or term of confinement and includes but is not limited to the <br />Department of Corrections, the Indeterminate Sentence Review Board, and the <br />Department of Social and Health Services. <br />2. "Follows" means deliberately maintaining visual or physical proximity to a <br />specific person over a period of time. A finding that the alleged stalker <br />repeatedly and deliberately appears at the person's home, school, place of <br />employment, business, or any other location to maintain visual or physical <br />proximity to the person is sufficient to find that the alleged stalker follows the <br />person. It is not necessary to establish that the alleged stalker follows the <br />person while in transit from any location to another. <br />3. "Harass" means unlawful harassment as defined in RCW 10.14.020. <br />4. "Protective order" means any temporary or permanent court order <br />prohibiting or limiting violence against, harassment of, contact or <br />communication with, or physical proximity to another person. <br />5. "Repeatedly" means on two or more separate occasions. <br />Is hereby amended to read as follows: <br />Stalking. <br />A. A person commits the crime of stalking if, without lawful authority and under <br />circumstances not amounting to a felony attempt of another crime: <br />1. He or she intentionally and repeatedly harasses or repeatedly follows <br />another person; and <br />2. The person being harassed or followed is intimidated, harassed or placed <br />in fear that the stalker intends to injure the person, another person, or property <br />of the person or of another person. The feeling of fear must be one that a <br />reasonable person in the same situation would experience under all the <br />circumstances; and <br />6 <br />11 <br />