This bill prohibits a person from engaging in conduct that constitutes doxing when the target of the doxing is a minor. It also authorizes a family member, legal guardian or representative of a minor who is a target of doxing in violation of that prohibition to bring a civil action on behalf of the minor for injunctive relief, actual damages, compensatory damages, punitive damages, any combination of those remedies or any other appropriate relief. Under the bill, doxing is defined as the knowing disclosure of personal identifying information of a person, without that person's consent, and when that disclosure is intended to cause, and in fact either directly or indirectly causes:
1. A course of conduct directed at or concerning that person that constitutes stalking pursuant to the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 17-A, section 210-A;
2. Physical harm to that person;
3. Serious damage to the property of that person; or
4. That person to reasonably fear for that person's own physical safety or to reasonably fear for the physical safety of a close relation of that person. The bill sets out a number of defenses to this authorized civil action, including when the disclosure of personal identifying information of a minor was for the sole purpose of engaging in lawful and constitutionally protected activity pertaining to speech, assembly, press or petition, including to address a matter of public concern.