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Stalking Violence
A person who engages in a course of conduct (a series of acts over a period of time) directed at a specific person, which causes substantial emotional distress to that person and serves no legitimate purpose, commits the act of stalking. This can include cyberstalking - threats delivered by electronic communication. If you are a victim of stalking, you can ask the Court for a protective order prohibiting stalking.
Stalking, as used in F.S. 784.048: A person who willfully, maliciously, and repeatedly follows, harasses, or cyberstalks another person commits the offense of stalking.
Stalking & Cyber Stalking
Stalking means the repeated following, harassment, or cyberstalking of one person by another. Cyberstalk means to engage in a course of conduct to communicate, or to cause to be communicated, words, images, or language by or through the use of electronic mail or electronic communication, directed at a specific person, causing substantial emotional distress to that person and serving no legitimate purpose.
Because you are making a request to the Court, you are called the petitioner. The person whom you are asking the Court to protect you from is called the respondent. If the respondent is your spouse, former spouse, related to you by blood or marriage, living with you now or has lived with you in the past (if you are or were living as a family), or the other parent of your child (ren), whether or not you have ever been married or ever lived together, you may, instead, choose to use the Petition for Injunction for Protection Against Domestic Violence, rather than this form.
Fee
There is no filing file.
Stalking Violence Injunction Packets are available in the Injunction Office of the Citrus County Courthouse
Or prepare digitally via our DO IT YOURSELF Court Filings System
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Physical Address
110 N Apopka Ave
Inverness, FL 34450
Phone: 352-341-6424Fax: 352-341-6413
Injunction Services are only available at the Citrus County Courthouse.
** If an injunction is needed after business hours, weekends or holidays please call 911.**
Request assistance as early in the day as possible, preferably before 3pm, to allow sufficient time to complete paperwork and for the Court to review your paperwork.When contacting our office by phone, please select the following prompts to get to the correct department:
- 1 for Payments
- 3 for Traffic and Other Citations
- 4 for Criminal Matters
- 5 for Civil Matters
- 6 for Family Related Matters
- 7 for Jury and Evidence
- 8 for Payment Plan Information
TDD
800-955-8771
Hours
Monday - Friday
8 a.m. - 5 p.m
Related Documents
- Baker Act Forms (PDF)
- Dating Violence Injunction (PDF)
- Domestic Violence Injunction With Children (PDF)
- Domestic Violence Injunction Without Children (PDF)
- Marchman Act (PDF)
- Motion for Modification of Injunction Packet (PDF)
- Petition for Violation of Injunction (PDF)
- Repeat Violence Injunction (PDF)
- Sexual Violence Injunction (PDF)
- Stalking Injunction Packet (PDF)
- Supplemental Affidavit in Support of Injunction Packet (PDF)
- Vulnerable Adult Petition (PDF)