STALKING IS AGAINST THE LAW! AND IT DOESN'T MATTER WHO OR WHY A STALKER STALKS! IT CAN BE AN EX-BOYFRIEND OR AN HOA!

In 1993, the State of Texas passed its first anti-stalking law. Every person has a right not to be spied upon, especially in the one place where you should feel more safe than anywhere else--YOUR HOME!

If you have any doubts about whether or not an HOA agent can stalk your home, please read the following handbook published by SPARK, the Stalking Prevention, Awareness, & Resource Center: https://www.stalkingawareness.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/SPARC-Stalking-Victim-Handbook.pdf

Your Peachtree Village Neighborhood Union is committed to bringing an end to the stalking of our community's residents. Please help us help you and Law Enforcement by following the advice given by SPARK, such as, keeping a log of each and every time a spy car has pulled up to the edge of your home property to take pictures and write down anything to be used against you, and make sure to document, in detail, how it made you feel!

Don't allow anyone to convince you stalking behavior is somehow OK, just because your home is in an HOA community! Just as in the case of a sexual predator who may try to excuse his unwanted surveillance and other threatening behavior by claiming, "But she is my girlfriend," likewise, even if you had given the HOA permission to spy on you (which is the LIE they will try to use), once you make it clear they don't have your permission, any further surveillance is against the Law!

According to the Texas Penal Code, 42.072, (a), (3), (D):

“(a) A person commits an offense if the person, on more than one occasion and pursuant to the same scheme or course of conduct that is directed at a specific other person, knowingly engages in conduct that: (3) would cause a reasonable person under circumstances similar to the circumstances of the other person to: (D) feel harassed, terrified, intimidated, annoyed, alarmed, abused, tormented, embarrassed, or offended.”

Stalking, as defined above, is a serious crime in Texas. The same Texas Penal Code, 42.072, (b) states, “an offence under this section is a felony of the third degree”! That’s 2 to 10 years in prison and up to a fine of $10,000.00!

Of course, we usually tend to think of stalking only in terms of when someone becomes so obsessively attracted to someone in a sexual way, that they begin following them and spying on them without the permission of the person they’re so obsessed with. But the Law doesn’t restrict criminal stalking just to people who have some sexual obsession. It doesn’t really say anything about what the MOTIVE of the stalker is. What matters is if someone spies on you or your home, more than one time, and it results in YOU FEELING any one of the following experiences--harassed, terrified, intimidated, annoyed, alarmed, abused, tormented, embarrassed, or offended, then it’s criminal Stalking!

Not even the police are allowed to park in front of your home to spy and take pictures try to find some excuse to accuse you of an offense! In 2001, the US Supreme Court (Kyllo v. United States, 533 U.S. 27), rightfully, decided even this sort of surveillance was Unconstitutional, even if conducted from a public vantage point, like a street. In fact, the police can't even use a thermal imaging device, much less a regular camera in order to "fish" for evidence to use against you!

If you see any HOA agent, like a Proper HOA Management spy car or someone from the HOA Zombie ACC, stalking your home, please take pictures of them, get their license plate number, write down a description of the perpetrator, and document how YOU felt, especially, if you experienced any of the following reactions: harassment, terror, intimidation, annoyance, alarm, abuse, torment, embarrassment or offense. Then, please contact us as soon as you can at info@peachtreevillageplano.com so we can hold accountable the HOA and any HOA management company they've hired for this illegal behavior.