ALBANY – State legislators and prosecutors are rushing to restore part of the state’s criminal harassment statute that was frequently used in domestic violence cases before the Court of Appeals declared it unconstitutional this month.
Assemblyman Joseph Lentol, a Brooklyn Democrat who chairs the Assembly’s Codes Committee, said his office is working with his committee’s counterpart in the Senate, Michael Nozzolio, a Seneca Falls Republican, to rewrite the second-degree aggravated harassment statute.
