Committee on Public Safety City Council Meeting February 19, 2020 Alderman Brendan Reilly
ORDINANCE
SECTION 1. Chapter 8-4 ofthe Municipal Code ofChicago is here by amended by adding Section 8-4-025, as follows:
8-4-025 Street Harassment Ordinance.
Definitions. For purposes of this Section:
"Public place" means any area to which the public is invited or permitted, including the public way, public buildings, public accommodations such as hotels, theaters, taverns, and restaurants, and common carriers such as trains, buses, and taxis.
"Street harassment" means conduct that serves no legitimate purpose which is directed at a specific person, and includes:
preventing such person from leaving the presence of the individual engaging in such conduct by following immediately behind, walking alongside, or blocking the path or passage of such person;
repeatedly making communications, after being advised, verbally or by gesture, by such person that further communication is unwelcome;
making insults, taunts, or challenges, which by their very utterance inflict injury or are likely to provoke an immediate violent response, even if such person does not react with violence, or that would cause the target of such conduct to reasonably believe that the individual engaging in such conduct intends to cause bodily injury to such person or another individual;
making a communication using offensively coarse language that would cause such person to reasonably believe that the individual engaging in such conduct intends to cause bodily injury to such person or another individual;
subjecting such person to offensive physical contact, or touching such person in a manner which a reasonable person would find offensive;
making any statement, gesture or other communication that a reasonable person would perceive as unwelcome explicitly or implicitly sexual language, including references to an individual's genitalia, pubic area, buttocks, or breast, or to sexual activities, solicitation of sex...
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