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This guide includes strategies to incorporate stalking education into existing SA and DV programming on college campuses; resources for workshops specifically focused on stalking; and activities, videos, and other resources that can serve as building blocks for your own program.

This Guide is for victim advocates working with lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) individuals who may be experiencing stalking. Other service providers, individuals experiencing stalking, and friends/family of people experiencing stalking may also find it useful in supporting victims of stalking. It provides basic information about the dynamics of stalking and safety planning, co-occurring crimes, specific tactics used against LGBTQ+ individuals, safety planning strategies that support LGBTQ+ stalking victims, and issues to be aware of when supporting LGBTQ+ victims.

This document breaks down the Counterman v. Colorado case and goes back to basics to make sure stakeholders understand what the Supreme Court decided – and what that decision may mean for stalking prosecutions moving forward. This document is intended as a general explainer.

Nearly half of all stalking cases involve both in-person and technology-facilitated stalking. In fact, many offenders combine their technology abuse activities with in-person forms of stalking and harassment. Discuss the list in this guide with a victim to identify what technology-facilitated stalking behaviors they are experiencing, how to best document that the behaviors are happening, and plan for their safety.

This Guide is for law enforcement officers and agencies regarding their response to stalking. It also provides basic information about the dynamics of stalking, strategies to identify and investigate the crime, and important components of appropriate agency response.

This resource is a descriptive model policy of best practices for the effective law enforcement response to and investigation of stalking. As a complex crime, stalking deserves a comprehensive policy as well as appropriate training for all agency employees. Depending on an agency’s size, organization, and resources, some pieces of this model policy may need to be renamed or combined. Careful consideration is encouraged before removing any pieces of this model policy.

This Judicial Guide is designed to work in conjunction with federal, state, Tribal, and territorial stalking laws. Judicial officers should consider stalking in all types of legal proceedings, including in Federal courts; Tribal courts; immigration courts; state family, juvenile, civil, and criminal court cases; and administrative law adjudications including immigration and Equal Employment Opportunity Commission adjudications. Judicial officers can use this tool to:

• Help identify the patterns and behaviors of stalking;
• Provide courts the background needed to readily identify stalking patterns and behaviors; and
• Include findings regarding stalking, using model judicial order language, in court orders.