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Title: Local officials stepping up enforcement of new Internet harassment law targeting
Post by: SandraJane on August 28, 2011, 04:25:17 PM
Dallas Voice

Local officials stepping up enforcement of new Internet harassment law targeting those who harass, impersonate others online

DAVID TAFFET | Staff Writer
taffet@dallasvoice.com

http://www.dallasvoice.com/online-revenge-felony-conviction-1087207.html (http://www.dallasvoice.com/online-revenge-felony-conviction-1087207.html)

Dallas police and the Dallas County District Attorney's office have begin stepping up enforcement of a 2009 Internet harassment law that makes it a felony to impersonate, imitate or otherwise harass others in e-mails, instant messaging programs and commercial social networking sites.