Legal Question in Technology Law in Kentucky
Email Threats
I recieved some threatening emails, they were specific to doing physical harm, they were also signed by a certain person, is there any way to find out exactly who or were the emails came from and if so, what can done about it. Any help on this matter would be great.
1 Answer from Attorneys
Re: Email Threats
Contact the police and the prosecutors. I am not familiar with KY law. Internet or not, surely they have laws against threats of violence. Ohio has criminal penalties against this, and I've helped my client get local prosecutors to issue subpoena after subpoena to a series of Internet service provides to track down precisely what computer produced threatening e-mail. From that, we prosecuted the likely perpetrator (with other evidence).
You might have to be persistent, as many prosecutors don't understand the possibilites of tracing the writer through an ISP. Maybe seek a KY internet attorney to help you to get the prosecutors to go after this person.
Yes, they can be found, or at least the machine from whence the messages came can be found. If the machine is a public machine, such as at a library, it gets harder. The content of the messages my also give clues.
Be safe.
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