📋 Tender Overview
No changes will be made to criminal legislation to improve the effectiveness of tackling online targeting and shaming, and the Ministry of Justice has now completed its legislative drafting project on online targeting and shaming. The main methods of online targeting and shaming are already punishable under the Criminal Code. However, it is important to ensure that victims of online targeting and shaming receive adequate support in their working environment and in the criminal process. In this respect, work will continue as part of the preparation of the victim policy action plan included in the Government Programme.
The need to criminalise online targeting and shaming as a separate offence was thoroughly examined in a report by Mika Illman, Government Rapporteur, in December 2020 and then as official work at the Ministry of Justice. The consultation round of the assessment memorandum published by the Ministry of Justice in September 2022 strengthened perceptions of the significant challenges related to making online targeting and shaming separately punishable. A summary of the statements was published in December 2022, on the basis of which the Ministry of Justice has assessed the matter.
