Renton, Washington police are seeking the identity of the creator of some videos critical of their department in what they describe as a cyberstalking investigation. Police are asking Google to reveal the name of the creator using the pseudonym “Mrfuddlesticks.”
The videos contain profanity and sexual content and name members of the department. The affadavit for a search warrant says, “Three individuals have came [sic] forward and have identified themselves as being persons targeted by embarrassing and emotionally tormenting comments about past sexual relationships or dating relationships that were discussed within some of these videos.”
Washington’s cyberstalking law outlaws the use of electronics to “harass, intimidate, torment, or embarrass” another person using “any lewd, lascivious, indecent, or obscene words, images, or language or suggesting the commission of any lewd or lascivious act.” -db
From The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, August 8, 2011, by Aaron Mackey.