After suicide, city outlaws harassment via Internet (Fort Worth Star-Telegram)
After suicide, city outlaws harassment via Internet (Fort Worth Star-Telegram)
City officials unanimously passed a measure making online harassment a crime, days after learning that a 13-year-old girl killed herself last year after receiving cruel messages on the Internet. The six-member Board of Aldermen on Wednesday made Internet harassment a misdemeanor, punishable by up to a $500 fine and 90 days in jail. Mayor Pam Fogarty said that the city had proposed the measure …