Office of the City Clerk - Record #: SO2019-8026

• Record #: SO2019-8026
• Type: Ordinance
• Status: Passed
• Intro date: 10/16/2019
• Current Controlling Legislative Body: Committee on Public Safety
• Final action: 4/22/2020
• Title: Amendment of Municipal Code Section 8-4-127 regarding cyberstalking and cyber-flashing
• Sponsors: Lopez, Raymond A.
• Topic: MUNICIPAL CODE AMENDMENTS - Title 8 - Offenses Affecting Public Peace, Morals & Welfare - Ch. 4 Public Peace & Welfare

Date	Journal Page Number	Action By	Action	Result
4/22/2020	15029	City Council	Passed
3/10/2020		Committee on Public Safety	Substituted in Committee
3/10/2020		Committee on Public Safety	Recommended to Pass
10/16/2019	8300	City Council	Referred

SUBSTITUTE
ORDINANCE


BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CHICAGO:

SECTION 1. Section 8-4-127 of the Municipal Code of Chicago is hereby amended by deleting the language struck through and by inserting the language underscored, as follows:
8-4-127 Cyberstalking and cvber-flashinq ordinance.
(a) Definitions. For purposes of this chapter Section, the following definitions shall
apply:
"Harass" means to engage in a knowing and willful course of conduct directed at a specific person that alarms, torments or terrorizes that person.
"Electronic communication" means any transfers of signs, signals, writings, sounds, data or intelligence of any nature transmitted in whole or in part by a wire, radio, electromagnetic, photoelectric or photo-optical system.
"Electronic communication" includes transmissions by a computer through the Internet to another computer.
"Family or household member" includes spouses, former spouses, parents, children, stepchildren and other persons related by blood or by present or prior marriage, persons who shared or formerly shared a common dwelling, persons who have or allegedly share a blood relationship through a child, persons who have or have had a dating or engagement relationship, and persons with disabilities and their personal assistants. For purposes of this ordinance neither a casual acquaintanceship nor ordinary fraternization between two individuals in business or social contexts shall be deemed to constitute a dating relationship. J
"Cyber-flashing" means to knowingly and without lawful justification send an intimate image to another person through the use of data-dropping technology without the request or express consent ofthe person.
"Data-dropping technology" means technology that enables the transfer of files, including, but not limited to, pictures, videos, or texts, using wireless local area networking devices to cellular telephone users located within close proximity with the sender. The term "data-dropping.t...