As social media sites creep further into our personal lives, issues relating to them have in turn begun to appear in the legal system. The Tennesseean recently published a story about a Hendersonville woman arrested for violating an Order of Protection for using the “Poke” option on Facebook to contact the protected party of an Order of Protection.
This form of contact seems innocent enough; no message is sent other than that the recipient has been “poked” by another user. But courts in Tennessee will mostly likely view such an action as the electronic equivalent to walking up to a protected party and reaching out to touch them physically.
Bottom Line : No matter how non-intrusive you may think contact through social networking sites may be, it is exactly the kind of third-party contact that Tennessee courts issue Orders of Protection to prevent.
If you need an attorney in East Tennessee to assist you in the defense or pursuit of an Order of Protection, head over to my webpage @ www.nablacklaw.com. My office is located in Maryville (Blount County), Tennessee.
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