Stalking Investigations in Idaho

01Before anything else

Safety Planning Comes Before Evidence

When someone is following, watching or contacting you against your wishes, the first call belongs to 911, the city police or the county sheriff. A private firm cannot arrest, cannot order anyone to stay away and should never be your emergency plan. Tell a trusted person what is happening, keep your phone charged, save every message without replying, and note dates and places as they occur. If a coworker is involved, your employer may also have duties, which our workplace investigations address. Domestic violence advocates in your county can help with a safety plan if the person is a current or former partner.

Our part begins once you have a plan for staying safe. A Delator stalking investigation is built to answer the questions police and judges ask: what happened, when, how often, and who did it. We organize what you already have, add lawful documentation, and keep everything in a form an officer can read quickly. Clients who are unsure where an investigator's authority ends can review our explainer on lawful investigator activity and our wider surveillance casework in Idaho before the first call.

• Call 911 if you feel threatened
• Save messages; do not reply or delete
• Write down dates, times and places
• Tell someone you trust

02The law

How Idaho Code Defines Stalking in Two Degrees

Under Idaho Code § 18-7906, second degree stalking generally means knowingly and maliciously engaging in a course of conduct, meaning repeated acts of nonconsensual contact, that would cause a reasonable person substantial emotional distress or fear of death or injury to themselves or a family or household member. The statute's definition of nonconsensual contact expressly includes following the victim or maintaining surveillance, including by electronic means. Second degree stalking is a misdemeanor carrying up to one year in county jail and a fine of up to $1,000, and evidence gathered for one degree often supports the other, as our surveillance investigators see when conduct spills over state lines.

First degree stalking under § 18-7905 is a felony, punishable by one to five years and a fine of up to $10,000. It applies when the conduct violates a protective or no-contact order, occurs while the offender is on probation or parole, targets a victim under 16, involves a weapon, or follows a prior stalking conviction or listed violent offense against the same victim within seven years. Whether facts meet those elements is a prosecutor's call, and our investigations for Idaho attorneys support victims' counsel presenting them.

03Civil protection

Civil Protection Orders and the Ninety-Day Window

Idaho Code § 18-7907 lets a victim petition the magistrate division for a civil protection order based on stalking, threatening communications or malicious harassment. The petition is verified and describes conduct within the 90 days before filing that is likely to recur. A hearing is generally set within 14 days, the court applies a preponderance standard, and an order may last up to one year with renewal possible. A dated chronology with supporting exhibits gives the judge something concrete to weigh, and a background check on the respondent can surface prior orders.

Where the person is a current or former intimate partner or household member, a domestic violence petition under chapter 39-63 may fit better, and counsel can advise which path applies. The court generally sends the order to law enforcement for personal service unless the petitioner chooses a private server, and our Idaho process serving team can handle related civil papers when counsel asks. Families dealing with a custody dispute alongside the harassment can also read our Idaho custody investigation guide.

04The record

Documenting Following and Repeated Contact

Most stalking cases fail for lack of a clear pattern rather than lack of fear. We build a single chronology that ties each incident to a date, time, location and piece of proof: a screenshot with the username visible, a voicemail, a dashcam clip, a doorbell video, a witness name. Where the person appears at your workplace, gym or route home, a discreet surveillance team can document their presence from public places, which turns an account of being followed into observed, time-stamped fact.

Idaho is a one-party consent state under Idaho Code § 18-6702, so you can generally record a call or conversation you take part in. Hiding a device to capture conversations between other people can be a felony, and we will not do it or advise it. Harassing texts and emails may also fall under § 18-6710, where a second offense becomes a felony. Our guide to recording laws in Idaho explains what victims can safely capture on their own.

05Device checks

Trackers, Hidden Cameras and Shared Accounts

When a harasser always seems to know where you are, the explanation is often technical: a magnetic tracker under a bumper, a tag device dropped into a bag, location sharing left on in a family phone plan, or a password the other person still knows. We inspect vehicles you own or lawfully use, review device and account settings with you, and photograph anything found in place before it is touched, so police can take custody of it with its condition documented.

Covert electronic tracking of a person can amount to stalking under Idaho Code § 18-7906, and hidden imaging devices in private places may implicate the video voyeurism statute, § 18-6605. Delator never places trackers on vehicles it has no right to, and we do not access another person's accounts. If an employer's systems are involved, our corporate investigations group can coordinate with company counsel, and people worried about how much of their address history is public can ask about an OSINT exposure review and data wipe.

06Identification

Naming a Harasser Who Hides Behind Accounts

Anonymous harassment usually leaves a trail: a writing style, a time pattern, a photo only certain people could have taken, a burner account that follows the same few friends. We compare those details against people with motive and access, research public records and open sources, and present a reasoned conclusion with the supporting points spelled out. When identification depends on subscriber records from a platform or carrier, that generally takes a subpoena or court order obtained by counsel or police, not a private request.

Our cyberbullying investigations cover online harassment in more depth, including preserving posts before they are deleted. If the suspected harasser is a coworker or a former employee, our workplace harassment investigations can run alongside the stalking file. When the likely source is a dating match whose real identity is unclear, a dating background check often answers the first question quickly and at a modest cost.

07Idaho specifics

College Towns, Two Time Zones and Long Drives

Idaho's geography changes how stalking cases unfold. Moscow and Pullman sit minutes apart across the Washington line, and Latah County lies in the Pacific time zone while Boise runs on Mountain time, so we log every incident with its zone to keep the chronology clean. Students at the University of Idaho, Boise State and BYU-Idaho in Rexburg often face harassers who move between campus, apartments and social media, and our investigators serving Moscow and other college towns plan around that.

In North Idaho a harasser may live across the line near Spokane, and in the south the drive between Boise and Coeur d'Alene runs roughly 380 to 390 miles, most of it on US-95. Conduct that crosses state lines can raise federal questions that counsel should assess. On reservation land, tribal law and tribal courts may govern, so we confirm the approach with counsel first. Clients near the Panhandle can reach our Coeur d'Alene investigators, and Treasure Valley clients our Boise investigators.

Services

Stalking Investigation Services in Idaho

• Incident chronologyWe convert your messages, notes and recollections into one dated, sourced timeline that police, prosecutors and a magistrate can follow without explanation.Learn more
• Public-place surveillanceInvestigators document the other person appearing along your routes or at your workplace, using time-stamped video taken lawfully from public vantage points.Learn more
• Vehicle tracker inspectionA physical and electronic check of vehicles you own or lawfully use, with anything found photographed in place before police take custody.Learn more
• Home and office camera sweepWe look for concealed cameras and listening devices in spaces you control and document findings that may support a voyeurism or stalking report.Learn more
• Unknown harasser identificationOpen-source research, account pattern analysis and public records review aimed at naming the person behind anonymous, rotating or recently created accounts.Learn more
• Background on the harasserOnce a name is known, we research court history, prior protection orders and addresses so counsel understands who the respondent is.Learn more
• Personal exposure reductionWe find where your address and phone number are published online and help you remove what can be removed, reducing what a stalker can find.Learn more
• Protection order exhibitsExhibits organized for a § 18-7907 petition or a chapter 39-63 domestic violence petition, prepared with and for your attorney.Learn more
• Service of related papersWhen counsel files civil papers connected to the case, our process serving division documents each attempt and returns a signed affidavit.Learn more

How it works

How a Stalking Case Moves Forward

1. 01

   Safety check and intake

   We confirm you are safe, ask whether a police report exists, and listen to the full history. If you are in any danger, we tell you to call 911 first.

2. 02

   Written scope and price

   You receive a written plan describing the work, the hours expected and the cost at $100 per hour. Nothing starts until you have read and approved it.

3. 03

   Documentation and checks

   Investigators build the chronology, inspect vehicles or rooms you control, and document public-place conduct, logging the time zone, date and location of every single observation.

4. 04

   Report for police and court

   You and your attorney receive a clear report with exhibits, suitable for a police detective, a county prosecutor or a magistrate hearing on a civil protection order petition.

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Idaho Statutes Often Involved in Stalking Cases

Statewide coverage

Stalking Cases Across Idaho

Delator assigns investigators to stalking matters in every Idaho county, from the Treasure Valley to the Panhandle and the Upper Snake River Plain. Clients in Canyon County can start with our Nampa investigators, while eastern Idaho cases often run through our Pocatello team or the Rexburg investigators who work around BYU-Idaho. Delator has no Idaho office, so our investigators travel to the case; we schedule fieldwork around the distances and time zones involved and confirm every step in writing before it begins. Southwest Idaho clients outside Boise often find that a single planning call settles the logistics before anything else is scheduled.

• Boise
• Coeur d'Alene
• Moscow
• Rexburg
• Pocatello
• Nampa
• All of Idaho

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Frequently asked questions

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Investigations available in Idaho

Every service below is available in Idaho and across Idaho, run by the same Delator Group leadership that manages our Tennessee casework. Choose a service to read how it works in Idaho.

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Private investigators across Idaho