Bullying Laws in New Jersey

January 17, 2014; P.L. 2013, c.272. “A person

commits the crime of cyber-harassment if, while
making a communication in an online capacity via
any electronic device or through a social
networking site and with the purpose to harass
another, the person:

(1) threatens to inflict injury or physical harm to any person or the property of
any person;

(2) knowingly sends, posts, comments, requests, suggests, or proposes any

lewd, indecent, or obscene material to or about a person with the intent to
emotionally harm a reasonable person or place a reasonable person in fear
of physical or emotional harm to his person; or

(3) threatens to commit any crime against the person or the person’s
property.”

ftp://www.njleg.state.nj.us/20122013/AL13/272_.PDF

September 1, 2011; P.L.2010, CHAPTER 122; “Anti-Bullying Bill of Rights Act.”

“Harassment, intimidation or bullying” means any gesture, any written,
verbal or physical act, or any electronic communication, whether it be a
single incident or a series of incidents …that takes place on school property,
at any school-sponsored function [or] on a school bus, or off school grounds
that substantially disrupts or interferes with the orderly operation of the
school or the rights of other students.

“Two times each school year, between September 1 and January 1 and
between January 1 and June 30, at a public hearing, the superintendent of
schools shall report to the board of education all acts of violence and,
vandalism, and harassment, intimidation, or bullying which occurred during
the previous [school year] [semester] reporting period. The information shall
also be reported once during each [semester of the school year] reporting
period to the Department of Education.”
http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/2010/Bills/AL10/122_.PDF

S.B. 993, 2007: New Jersey Statutes §18A:37-14; Nothing said about the
punishment other than it’s up to the School District and the “electronic
Communication” is added to the policy of Harassment in Schools. Examples
could range from expulsion to detention;
http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/2006/Bills/PL07/129_.HTM;
http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/2006/Bills/A4000/3803_R1.PDF