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This resolution raises awareness and promotes more services, campus prevention, and criminal-justice action against stalking—benefiting victims and students—while creating trade-offs around funding, increased policing impacts on vulnerable communities, and potential privacy concerns from efforts to address technology‑facilitated stalking.
Stalking victims (including low-income individuals and people with chronic conditions) would gain improved access to tailored victim services—hotlines, shelters, legal assistance, and other supports.
Students and young adults on campuses would see more prevention programs and on-campus support services for stalking, improving campus safety and survivor supports.
Criminal justice responses to stalking could be strengthened, producing more investigations and prosecutions that may increase accountability for offenders.
Some communities (including racial and ethnic minorities) could face increased police contact and criminal-justice involvement as investigations and prosecutions expand.
Expanding services, enforcement, or awareness efforts without providing new funding could shift costs onto taxpayers or strain local government budgets and service providers.
Measures to address technology-facilitated stalking could involve increased data collection, monitoring, or surveillance that raises privacy and civil‑liberties concerns for students and the broader public.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Affirms findings about the prevalence, harms, and service gaps related to stalking and designates January 2026 as National Stalking Awareness Month.
Introduced January 27, 2026 by Amy Klobuchar · Last progress February 9, 2026
Recognizes and summarizes evidence that stalking is common, harmful, and often underreported in the United States, highlighting victimization rates, relationships between victims and stalkers, physical threats, links to intimate partner homicide, duration and frequency of stalking, technology-facilitated stalking, and impacts on health, housing, and employment. Declares January 2026 as the 22nd anniversary of National Stalking Awareness Month and frames the month as an opportunity for public education about stalking and survivor supports. The resolution does not create new law or funding; it is a formal statement of findings and an awareness-month designation aimed at encouraging education, outreach, and greater attention to service gaps for stalking victims and at-risk groups such as young adults, students, and people with disabilities.