Alaska Statutes § 11.61.120 Harassment

Alaska Stat. § 11.61.120 establishes the offense of harassment in the second degree, which is punishable as a class B misdemeanor. The statute requires that the actor intend to harass or annoy another person and identifies multiple prohibited actions. These include insulting, taunting, or challenging someone in a way likely to provoke immediate violence; making repeated or anonymous telephone or electronic communications, including obscene messages or those threatening injury or sexual contact; failing to terminate a telephone connection to impair one’s ability to call or receive calls; subjecting another person to offensive physical contact; and distributing or publishing electronic or printed images that depict a person’s genitals, anus, or female breast or depict a person engaged in sexual acts, except when restricted by other statutes. The law includes aggravated provisions regarding communications toward minors and certain repeated visual depictions.