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Question: Is it illegal to harass a mentally ill person in the State of Arizona?
Answer: According to Arizona law, A.R.S. § 13-2921 makes it a crime to harass someone. That statute says, A person commits harassment if, with intent to harass or with knowledge that the person is harassing another person, the person:
- Anonymously or otherwise contacts, communicates or causes a communication with another person by verbal, electronic, mechanical, telegraphic, telephonic or written means in a manner that harasses.
- Continues to follow another person in or about a public place for no legitimate purpose after being asked to desist.
- Repeatedly commits an act or acts that harass another person.
- Surveils or causes another person to surveil a person for no legitimate purpose.
- On more than one occasion makes a false report to a law enforcement, credit or social service agency.
- Interferes with the delivery of any public or regulated utility to a person
There are other laws in Arizona that deal with aggravated harassment and assault.
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