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Exposed ALEC EXPOSED Search ABOUT MEMBERS “ALEC” has long been GO By the Center for Media and Democracy www.prwatch.org D I D Y O U K N O W ? Corporations VOTED to adopt this. Through ALEC, global companies LOGIN | LOGOUT | HOME | JOIN ALEC | CONTACT work as “equals” in “unison” with politicians to write laws to govern your life. Big MODEL LEGISLATION TASK FORCES ALEC INITIATIVES PUBLICATIONS Business has “a VOICE and a VOTE,” according to newly exposed documents. DO YOU? aEVENTS & MEETINGS secretive NEWS collaboration between Big Business and Model Legislation “conservative” politicians. BehindCivil closed doors, they Justice ghostwrite “model” bills to Commerce, Insurance, be introduced in state and Economic capitols across the country. 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ALEC’s’Corporate Board --in recent past or present • AT&T Services, Inc. • centerpoint360 • UPS • Bayer Corporation • GlaxoSmithKline • Energy Future Holdings • Johnson & Johnson • Coca-Cola Company • PhRMA • Kraft Foods, Inc. • Coca-Cola Co. • Pfizer Inc. • Reed Elsevier, Inc. • DIAGEO • Peabody Energy • Intuit, Inc. • Koch Industries, Inc. • ExxonMobil • Verizon • Reynolds American Inc. • Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. • Salt River Project • Altria Client Services, Inc. • American Bail Coalition • State Farm Insurance For more on these corporations, search at www.SourceWatch.org. Home Model Legislation Public Safety and Elections Did you know the NRA--the Anti-Stalking Act National Rifle Association-was the corporate co-chair in 2011? Summary This Act would provide definitions and create the offenses of stalking and aggravated stalking. The Act would also provide criminal penalties and would allow police officers to arrest, without a warrant, any person he or she has probable cause to believe is committing the act of stalking or aggravated stalking. Model Legislation (Title, enacting clause, etc.) Section 1. {Title.} This Act may be cited as the Anti-Stalking Act. Section 2. {Definitions.} As used in this Act: (A) "Harass" means to engage in a course of conduct directed at a specific person that causes substantial emotional distress in such person and serves no legitimate purpose. (B) "Course of conduct" means a pattern of conduct composed of a series of acts over a period of time, however short, evidencing a continuity of purpose. Constitutionally protected activity is not included within the meaning of "course of conduct." Such constitutionally protected activity includes picketing or other organized protests. (C) "Credible threat" means a threat made with the intent to cause the person who is the target of the threat to reasonably fear for his or her safety. The threat must be against the life of, or a threat to cause bodily injury to, a person. Section 3. {Penalties.} (A) Any person who willfully, maliciously, and repeatedly follows or harasses another person commits the offense of stalking, a misdemeanor of the first degree, punishable as provided in [state penal code]. (B) Any person who willfully, maliciously, and repeatedly follows or harasses another person, and makes a credible threat with intent to place that person in reasonable fear of death or bodily injury, commits the offense of aggravated stalking, a felony of the third degree, punishable as provided in [state penal code]. (C) Any person who, after an injunction for protection against repeat violence or an injunction for protection against domestic violence, or after any other court-imposed prohibition of conduct toward the subject person or that person's property, knowingly, willfully, maliciously, and repeatedly follows or harasses another person commits the offense of aggravated stalking, a felony of the third degree, punishable as provided in (state penal code). Section 4. {Arrest procedure.} Any law enforcement officer may arrest, without a warrant, any person he or she has probable cause to believe has violated the provisions of this Act. Section 5. {Severability clause.} Section 6. {Repealer clause.} Section 7. {Effective date.} ALEC's Sourcebook of American State Legislation 1995 About Members Login Logout Events & Meetings About Us and ALECLegislation EXPOSED. 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