Changes to Existing Law

It is a Class 1 misdemeanor for a person to use a telephone or other electronic communication device for any of the following purposes: (1) To contact another person with intent to terrorize, intimidate, threaten, harass, or annoy such person by using obscene or lewd language or by suggesting a lewd or lascivious act; (2) To contact another person with intent to threaten to inflict physical harm or injury to any person or property; (3) To contact another person with intent to extort money or other things of value; (4) To contact another person with intent to disturb that person by repeated anonymous telephone calls or intentionally failing to replace the receiver or disengage the telephone connection.; or (5) Except as allowed in section 2 of this Act, to contact or to attempt to contact another person and, in so doing, display or cause to be displayed as caller identification, a fictitious or misleading name or telephone number: (a) To defraud, cause harm, or wrongfully obtain anything of value from another person; or (b) Of another person who has not granted the person the right to display that other person's name or phone number, as applicable. It is a Class 1 misdemeanor for a person to knowingly permit a telephone or other electronic communication device under his or her control to be used for a purpose prohibited by this section.