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Politics
Eugene Volokh

Conviction for Posting Mayor's Office Phone Number, Which Led to Hundreds of Threatening Calls from Poster's Followers

From a decision in November in Hendry v. State, written by Indiana Court of Appeals Judge Leanna Weissmann, joined by Judges Mark Bailey and Elaine Brown:

Craig Hendry became a frequent visitor to city hall in the small town of Clinton, where he filmed confrontational interactions with employees and posted the videos to his YouTube channel. After he uploaded his first video from Clinton and listed the phone number of the mayor's office in the video's caption, city hall received hundreds of threatening phone calls and voicemails [apparently over about 30 days]….

There's a lot going on in the case, including a conviction for "target[ing] the mayor's assistant, P.K., banging on her closed office door and filming her through her closed blinds," and "follow[ing] P.K. to her car." But I was particularly struck by the prosecution for posting the phone number:

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