No contact means no contact in the case of a protection-from-abuse order, including contact made in the legally unsettled land of social media, lawyers say.
Lawyers familiar with social media issues said that to uphold the purpose of a PFA, commenting on or liking a petitioner’s Facebook photo should be considered a violation, but the offender’s intent in a stray interaction could be a question of law yet to be settled by the courts.
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