Establishes crimes against elected public officials and immediate families; provides police protection.
The bill adds elected public officials and their immediate family members to the list of persons protected from assault, making such crimes a third-degree offense. It also makes stalking and harassment against these individuals a third-degree crime. The Superintendent of the State Police and local police must provide protection to the elected official and their immediate family if such crimes occur. The length of police protection is determined on a case-by-case basis.
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