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duties or to influence the victim's performance of official duties; or (f) the stalker's victim is a current, former, or prospective witness in an adjudicative proceeding, and the stalker stalked the victim to retaliate against the victim as a result of the victim's testimony or potential testimony. F. As used in this section: 1. "Correctional agency" means a person working for the Department of Natural Resources in a correctional setting or any state, county, or municipally operated agency with the authority to direct the release of the a person serving a sentence or term of confinement and includes but is not limited to the Department of Corrections, the Indeterminate Sentence Review Board, and the Department of Social and Health Services. 2. "Follows" means deliberately maintaining visual or physical proximity to a specific person over a period of time. A finding that the alleged stalker repeatedly and deliberately appears at the person's home, school, place of employment, business, or any other location to maintain visual or physical proximity to the person is sufficient to find that the alleged stalker follows the person. It is not necessary to establish that the alleged stalker follows the person while in transit from any location to another. 3. "Harass" means unlawful harassment as defined in RCW 10.14.020. 4. "Protective order" means any temporary or permanent court order prohibiting or limiting violence against, harassment of, contact or communication with, or physical proximity to another person. 5. "Repeatedly" means on two or more separate occasions. Section 6: Section 4 of Ordinance No. 1234-86, as amended by Section 3 of Ordinance No. 1807- 91, Section 3 of Ordinance No. 2291-98, Section 1 of Ordinance No. 2466-00, Section 2 of Ordinance No. 2919-06, Section 1 of Ordinance No. 3026-07, Section 1 of Ordinance No. 3140-09, and Section 11 of Ordinance No. 3234-11 (EMC 10.22.040), which reads as follows: Violation of order for protection—Penalties. A. Whenever an order is granted under Chapter 7.90, 10.99, 26.09, 26.10, 26.26, 26.50 or 74.34 RCW, or there is a valid foreign protection order as defined in RCW 26.52.020, and the respondent or person to be restrained knows of the order, a violation of any of the following provisions of the order is a gross misdemeanor, except as provided in RCW 26.50.110(4) or 26.50.110(5): 1. The restraint provisions prohibiting acts or threats of violence against, or stalking of, a protected party, or restraint provisions prohibiting contact with a protected party; 2. A provision excluding the person from a residence, workplace, school, or day care; 8