DH> Allow me to correct what I perceive as a misconception here.. I'm not
DH> aware of any law (federal, state, or local) that refers to harassment as
DH> anything other than an employment issue, and there are many suits that
DH> come arising from a company's stated policies against harassment, and
DH> not from statutory limitations, which differ widely from state to state.
I am not a lawyer, but this sounds right to me. I don't think it's against
the law (any law) for me to look you up and down in a lewd way in an
elevator, and say "hey Hughes, nice ass". If I get so aggressive that you
feel threatened, maybe; but I'm pretty I can say rude things like that to
you, and not be in any danger of getting arrested. I'm a creep, but I'm
not a criminal.
...whereas (a) if we work for the same company, and I do it in the
elevator at work, I probably have violated the company harassment policy,
and you can probably take some sort of HR-related action against me;
(b) if I do it at a LOPSA event, you might reasonably want to be able to
complain to the organizers, and have them at least talk to me sternly
about it.
...and the theory is that having an anti-harassment policy makes (b)
easier; and, for that matter, having the policy (if I read it) might make
me less inclined to do something creepy like that in the first place,
because I know that LOPSA doesn't put up with stuff like that at their events.
-Josh ([email protected])
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