Harassment in Oklahoma is one of several specific statutory grounds when a court can enter a protective order. And in my experience, this is one of the most common reasons you see protective orders being sought is on allegations of harassment. This is a really common thing you see. But what does that actually mean legally speaking?

Well, we can go to Title 22, section 60.1 that gives you the legal definition for the purpose of the statute. Under this statute, it’s defined as “a knowing and willful course or pattern of conduct by a family or household member, or an individual who is or has been involved in a dating relationship with the person, directed at a specific person, which seriously harms or annoys the person and in which serves no legitimate purpose.”

It goes on to say that “the course of conduct must be such as would cause a reasonable person to suffer substantial emotional distress, and must actually cause substantial emotional distress to the person.”

Let’s unpack that real quick. Harassment has to be a knowing and willful course or pattern of conduct. So, the first thing that’s an obvious thing with harassment is for it to be harassment, it has to be more than a one-off incident.

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