SB 726 - Criminal Law - Electronic Harassment and Bullying (Grace's Law 2.0)

The American Civil Liberties Union of Maryland (ACLU) opposes SB 726, which, as revised in the Senate, amends the electronic harassment statute, Md. Code, Crim. L. § 3-805, in ways that are clearly unconstitutional. The question posed by this bill is not whether harassment of children is a problem, but whether the means chosen in this bill, namely making a broad swath of online speech a crime, are a constitutional way of addressing it. They are not.