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 is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor.
Va. Code Ann. § 18.2-152.7:1
Harassment by computer; penalty
Known as the Virginia Computer Crimes Act
The act spans §§ 18.2-152.1 to 18.2-152.9 (19 sections).
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case United States v. Williams (2010)
Most recently applied in Steele v. Goodman (March 2019)
2000, c. 849; 2020, c. 1002; 2022, c. 336.
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: Virginia Law Portal (LIS). Reproduced from public-domain Virginia statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.