{"id":216599,"date":"2026-05-01T13:01:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T13:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/216599\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T13:01:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T13:01:07","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-nyc-lawmakers-push-for-creep-act-to-modernize-stalking-protections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/216599\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Nyc Lawmakers Push For Creep Act To Modernize Stalking Protections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Lawmakers are urging the New York State Assembly to pass an act aiming to modernize outdated stalking legislation and provide better protection for victims.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Officials, survivors and advocates gathered for a press conference about the CREEP Act at Brooklyn Borough Hall on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Under current state law, civil orders of protection can only be obtained by those with a familial or intimate relationship with an accused stalker. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The CREEP Act would change that standard and allow victims to seek civil orders of protection regardless of relationship status.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">\u201cStalking destroys lives, and New York\u2019s laws still leave too many survivors exposed,\u201d said Senator Andrew Gounardes. \u201cRight now, many survivors are forced to seek safety through a legal system that fails to give them the protection they need. The CREEP Act would change that by creating a new civil anti\u2011stalking order of protection that allows courts to step in quickly, before harm escalates.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Proponents of the bill argue that it will bring New York up to date with 43 other states that already offer broader stalking protections. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">\u201cIt\u2019s time New York did too\u2014by modernizing our laws for a world where harassment has gone digital and ensuring no victim is left without protection simply because our laws have failed to keep up,\u201d said Gounardes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lawmakers are urging the New York State Assembly to pass an act aiming to modernize outdated stalking legislation&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":216600,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-216599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216599\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}