Va. Code Ann. § 18.2-60. Threats of death or bodily injury to a person or
member of his family; threats to commit serious bodily harm to persons
on school property; penalty. (2001)
A.
1. Any person who knowingly communicates, in a
writing, including an
electronically transmitted
communication producing a visual or electronic message, a threat
to kill or do bodily injury to a person, regarding that person or any member
of his family, and the threat
places such person in reasonable apprehension of death or bodily injury to
himself or his family member, is guilty of a Class 6 felony. However, any
person who violates this subsection with the intent to commit an act of
terrorism as defined in §
18.2-46.4 is guilty of a Class 5 felony.
2. Any person who
communicates a threat,
in a writing, including an
electronically transmitted
communication producing a visual or electronic message, to kill or do bodily
harm, (i) on the grounds or premises of any elementary, middle or secondary
school property, (ii) at any elementary, middle or secondary school-sponsored
event or (iii) on a school bus to any person or persons, regardless of whether
the person who is the object of the threat
actually receives the threat, and the
threat would place the person who is the object of the threat
in reasonable apprehension of death or bodily harm, is guilty of a Class 6
felony.
B.
Any
person who orally makes a threat
to any employee of any elementary, middle or secondary school, while on a
school bus, on school property or at a school-sponsored activity, to kill or
to do bodily injury to such person, is guilty of a Class 1
misdemeanor.
A prosecution pursuant to this section may be either in
the county, city or town in which the communication was made or
received.
Va. Code Ann. § 18.2-152.7:1. Harassment by computer; penalty.
(2000)
If any person, with the intent
to coerce, intimidate, or harass any person, shall use a computer or computer
network to communicate obscene, vulgar, profane, lewd, lascivious, or indecent
language, or make any suggestion or proposal of an obscene nature, or threaten
any illegal or immoral act, he shall be guilty of a Class 1
misdemeanor.
Va. Code Ann. §
18.2-386.1. Unlawful filming, videotaping or
photographing of another;
penalty. (2008)
A.
It
shall be unlawful for any person to knowingly and intentionally videotape,
photograph, or film any nonconsenting person or create any videographic or
still image record by any means whatsoever of the nonconsenting person if (i)
that person is totally nude, clad in undergarments, or in a state of undress
so as to expose the genitals, pubic area, buttocks or female breast in a
restroom, dressing room, locker room, hotel room, motel room, tanning bed,
tanning booth, bedroom or other location; or (ii) the videotape, photograph,
film or videographic or still image record is created by placing the lens or
image-gathering component of the recording device in a position directly
beneath or between a person's legs for the purpose of capturing an image of
the person's intimate parts or undergarments covering those intimate parts
when the intimate parts or undergarments would not otherwise be visible to the
general public; and when the circumstances set forth in clause (i) or (ii) are
otherwise such that the person being videotaped, photographed, filmed or
otherwise recorded would have a reasonable expectation of
privacy.
B.
The
provisions of this section shall not apply to filming, videotaping or
photographing or other still image or videographic recording by (i)
law-enforcement officers pursuant to a criminal investigation which is
otherwise lawful or (ii) correctional officials and local or regional jail
officials for security purposes or for investigations of alleged misconduct
involving a person committed to the Department of Corrections or to a local or
regional jail, or to any sound recording of an oral conversation made as a
result of any videotaping or filming pursuant to Chapter 6
(§
19.2-61 et seq.) of
Title 19.2.
C.
A
violation of subsection A shall be punishable as a Class 1
misdemeanor.
D.
A
violation of subsection A involving a nonconsenting person under the age of 18
shall be punishable as a Class 6 felony.
E.
Where
it is alleged in the warrant, information, or indictment on which the person
is convicted and found by the court or jury trying the case that the person
has previously been convicted within the 10-year period immediately preceding
the offense charged of two or more of the offenses specified in this section,
each such offense occurring on a different date, and when such offenses were
not part of a common act, transaction, or scheme, and such person has been at
liberty as defined in §
53.1-151 between each conviction, he shall be guilty of a Class 6
felony.