Law enforcement
Crimes: criminal threats
SB 239 lets courts weigh threats against local elections officials and elected local officials as an aggravating factor in felony criminal-threat cases.
The law expands sentencing considerations for felony threats that target people administering elections or serving in local elected office.
What the law does
- Authorizes courts to consider as an aggravating factor a willful threat of death or great bodily injury against a local elections official.
- Authorizes courts to consider the same factor when the threatened person is an elected local agency official.
- Applies when the defendant knew the person held the covered position.
Who it affects
- People convicted of felony criminal threats.
- Elections officials of cities, counties, cities and counties, and public districts.
- Elected local agency officials.