2023 Oklahoma Statutes
Title 21. Crimes and Punishments
§21-1173.1. Stalking Warning Letter.
A. Whenever a law enforcement agency receives a complaint of stalking and finds that such conduct has occurred, the law enforcement agency shall be required to provide a copy of a Stalking Warning Letter to the accused provided that the victim does not otherwise request that such letter not be served upon the accused. The Stalking Warning Letter shall be served upon the accused in the same manner as a bench warrant. If the service is to be in another county, the court clerk may issue service to the sheriff by facsimile or other electronic transmission for service by the sheriff and may receive the return of service from the sheriff in the same manner.
B. The following statutory form of the Stalking Warning Letter, as required by the provisions of subsection A of this section, shall be utilized by law enforcement agencies throughout the state:
__________________________________ COUNTY, STATE OF OKLAHOMA
CITY OF _______________________________
RE:_________________________________________________________________
(COMPLAINANT)
Stalking Warning Letter served to:_________________________________
_________________________________
(HOME ADDRESS)
_________________________________
(DATE OF BIRTH)
The __________________________ has recently investigated a complaint
(LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY)
about your behavior towards the above-named individual.
The behavior you have engaged in could be interpreted as "stalking" as provided for in Section 1173 of Title 21 of the Oklahoma Statutes. Stalking can be described as intentionally engaging in a course of conduct directed at a specific person that would cause a reasonable person under the same circumstances to suffer serious emotional distress, or place the specific person in reasonable fear of bodily injury. Your behavior has induced such fear or distress in the above-named individual.
Oklahoma law makes stalking a crime. The __________________________
(LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY)
takes this law very seriously.
Please consider this a formal warning that any future conduct by you towards the above-named individual could result in arrest by law enforcement and prosecution by the ______________________ County District Attorney's Office.
_______________________________________________
Print name of Chief of Law Enforcement Agency
_______________________________________________
Signature of Chief of Law Enforcement Agency
Served in hand __________________ by _______________________________
(DATE)(NAME OF OFFICER)
On behalf of the ____________________________________
(LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY)
at __________________________________________________
(LOCATION)
Added by Laws 2022, c. 318, § 3, eff. Nov. 1, 2022.
