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Indiana lawmakers faced threats over redistricting. Now they're trying to criminalize doxing
Senate Bill 140 targets online threats with personal data, escalating penalties to felonies if harm occurs; over a dozen lawmakers faced such intimidation during redistricting debates.
- On Jan. 6, Sen. Vaneta Becker, R-Evansville, introduced Senate Bill 140 to criminalize doxing in Indiana by defining it as posting personal data plus a threat, punishable as a Class A misdemeanor escalating to a Level 6 or Level 5 felony for serious injury or death.
- Bill sponsors say the proposal responds to threats and swatting that emerged during the map fight, with four co-authoring senators including Jean Leising, Greg Goode, Spencer Deery and Greg Walker.
- The measure treats social media and electronic communications as covered, includes personal information like addresses and Social Security numbers, and protects good-faith reports to law enforcement and Department of Child Services.
- Committee Chair Aaron Freeman pledged to clarify broad language with an amendment on Friday, and the bill will return to the Senate Corrections and Criminal Law Committee for a vote next week while Indiana State Police investigate.
- Civil‑liberties groups caution that broad language could punish publication of public records, and if enacted, Indiana would join about a dozen states with doxing penalties, though definitions vary.
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Source: iga.in.gov / iga.in.gov STATEHOUSE — During a committee meeting on Tuesday, State Senator Aaron Freeman didn’t hold back his frustration regarding a wave of dangerous harassment targeting Indiana public officials. Freeman spoke out during a hearing for Senate Bill 140, authored by Senators Ed Charbonneau, Tyler Johnson, and Andy Zay. This legislative push follows a tense period late last year when more than a dozen lawmakers faced bomb t…
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Indiana lawmakers consider anti-doxing bill following redistricting bomb, swatting threats
Indiana lawmakers hope to crack down on doxing after more than a dozen of their own became victims of threats amid a turbulent but unsuccessful redistricting campaign.
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