Phone Harassment In Ohio

If you are suffering from phone harassment in Ohio you have less of a legal recourse than in some of the other states in the US. In many states, phone harassment is legally considered stalking, however, for phone harassment in Ohio to be considered stalking there needs to be threat of violence by the person who is doing the phone harassment in Ohio, or the phone harassment needs to cause mental distress, where mental distress is a psychiatric illness or mental illness that causes temporary substantial incapacity. It is not necessary for the person to seek out help from a mental health professional, but the mental illness needs to be serious enough that this might be needed.

If you can prove that the phone harassment in Ohio that you are facing is stalking, then the person who is responsible is guilty of at least a misdemeanor of the first degree. In some cases, the stalking via phone harassment in Ohio might be considered a felony of the fourth degree. This includes cases where the person responsible for the phone harassment in Ohio is a repeat offender, where there is a threat of physical harm, where the person who is being harassed is a minor minor, or where the person who is conducting the phone harassment campaign in Ohio has a history of violence.

If you cannot show that the phone harassment in Ohio that you are suffering from is stalking, then there is not a lot the police can do for you, and you will have to take steps yourself to try to stop this phone harassment.

Probably the easiest way to stop the phone harassment is to get your phone number changed to an unpublished number and then do not give it out to anyone other than close friends and family if you can avoid it. If the person who is harassing you no longer has your phone number, they can no longer harass you.

Another option which might work if the person always calls you from the same number is to block calls from that number. You can do this if you have a land line, you just dial *60 immediately after you hang up, or, if you know the number they are calling from, you dial *60 then the phone number you wish to block.

If you have a cell phone you cannot usually block numbers like this to stop phone harassment in Ohio. However, if you have a phone with the option to set different ring tones for different people you can set a silent ring tone for everyone except the few friends and family that you wish to get phone calls from. That way you won't be bothered by the ringing, and you can get messages from any important phone calls later.