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2 <br />to retaliate against the victim for an act the victim performed during the course <br />of official duties or to influence the victim's performance of official duties; or (6D <br />the 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 />Section 6: <br />Section 4 of Ordinance No. 1234-86, as amended by Section 3 of Ordinance No. 1807- <br />91, Section 3 of Ordinance No. 2291-98, Section 1 of Ordinance No. 2466-00, Section 2 <br />of Ordinance No. 2919-06, Section 1 of Ordinance No. 3026-07, Section 1 of Ordinance <br />No. 3140-09, and Section 11 of Ordinance No. 3234-11 (EMC 10.22.040), which reads <br />as follows: <br />Violation of order for protection —Penalties. <br />A. Whenever an order is granted under Chapter 7.90, 10.99, 26.09, 26.10, 26.26, <br />26.50 or 74.34 RCW, or there is a valid foreign protection order as defined in RCW <br />26.52.020, and the respondent or person to be restrained knows of the order, a violation <br />of any of the following provisions of the order is a gross misdemeanor, except as <br />provided in RCW 26.50.110(4) or 26.50.110(5): <br />1. The restraint provisions prohibiting acts or threats of violence against, or stalking of, <br />a protected party, or restraint provisions prohibiting contact with a protected party; <br />8 <br />13 <br />