Gailey, Lake Stevens’ mayor for the past two years, said the online posts included pictures of his family members and their home address, as well as instructions for people to call and alert his son-in-law’s employer about Gailey’s political views.
No violence or threatening encounters resulted from these posts, which Gailey said were taken down in a matter of days.
Yet Gailey’s experience is part of what has spurred an effort at Washington’s state Capitol to crack down on doxxing (sometimes spelled “doxing”), a common term for the malicious online posting of people’s personal information without their consent.
Other local examples exist, some of them serious. In 2020, Washington state’s
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