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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 />