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The resolution aims to improve support, awareness, and legal responses to stalking (including technology-facilitated stalking), benefiting victims and students, but may increase criminal justice contact, raise privacy concerns, and impose costs if not paired with funding and safeguards.
Stalking victims: improved access to tailored victim services (hotlines, shelters, legal assistance) to help recovery and safety.
People experiencing stalking: stronger criminal justice responses that could lead to more investigations and prosecutions.
Students and young adults on campuses: expanded campus prevention and support services for stalking (prevention programs, counseling, campus hotlines).
Racial and ethnic minorities and other vulnerable populations: increased police contact and criminal justice involvement as investigations and prosecutions ramp up, which can exacerbate harms for over-policed communities.
Privacy-conscious individuals and students: efforts to address technology-facilitated stalking may rely on increased surveillance or data collection that raises privacy and civil liberties concerns.
Taxpayers and local governments: expanding services and enforcement without dedicated new funding could shift costs to taxpayers or strain local agencies' budgets.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Recognizes January 2026 as National Stalking Awareness Month and records congressional findings on stalking prevalence, harms, and service gaps.
Official title: Raising awareness and encouraging the prevention of stalking by designating January 2026 as "National Stalking Awareness Month".
Introduced January 27, 2026 by Amy Klobuchar · Last progress February 9, 2026
Recognizes January 2026 as the 22nd anniversary of National Stalking Awareness Month and sets out congressional findings about stalking in the United States. It presents statistics on how common stalking is, who stalkers typically are, the harms to victims (including risks of homicide and mental-health impacts), technology-facilitated stalking, low reporting rates, and service gaps, and it highlights populations at elevated risk such as young adults and students with disabilities.