{"id":24698,"date":"2024-11-26T20:11:51","date_gmt":"2024-11-27T03:11:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/new-mexico-secretary-of-states-office-says-she-will-not-file-police-report-over-harassment\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T22:59:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T04:59:18","slug":"new-mexico-secretary-of-states-office-says-she-will-not-file-police-report-over-harassment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/new-mexico-secretary-of-states-office-says-she-will-not-file-police-report-over-harassment\/","title":{"rendered":"New Mexico secretary of state\u2019s office says she will not file police report over harassment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=0f591764-bf0d-5865-a621-dcb2c26f43a0&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"960\" height=\"707\" alt=\"New Mexico Secretary of State Maggie Toulouse Oliver discusses the 2024 election at the state House and Senate\u2019s Courts, Corrections and Justice Committee on Nov. 12. Austin Fisher\/Source New Mexico\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">New Mexico Secretary of State Maggie Toulouse Oliver discusses the 2024 election at the state House and Senate\u2019s Courts, Corrections and Justice Committee on Nov. 12. Austin Fisher\/Source New Mexico<\/span><span class=\"credit\">cca<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>New Mexico\u2019s top election official has reversed course and says she will not pursue criminal charges over online threats toward her around this month\u2019s election.<\/p>\n<p>Secretary of State Maggie Toulouse Oliver, a Democrat, told reporters on Nov. 12 that she was preparing to file a police report tied to harassment she faced on social media that were \u201cegged on\u201d by a Republican state representative who has made unverified claims of voter fraud in state elections.<\/p>\n<p>But Alex Curtas, a spokesperson for Toulouse Oliver, said in an email Monday that plans have changed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have not filed a report on this matter and are unlikely to as the most incendiary of the online messages were deleted before we could compile them for review and potential referral,\u201d Curtas said.<\/p>\n<p>Had she filed a report, Toulouse Oliver would have gone to state police or the state Department of Justice alleging violations of a 2023 state law making it a felony to intimidate election officials during their official duties.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sourcenm.com\/briefs\/new-mexico-secretary-of-states-office-says-she-will-not-file-police-report-over-harassment\/\" id=\"link-4497c021025f5ca2a315d66e715d5761\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em id=\"emphasis-14796935aa275a0bcb2d95e61960d458\">Source NM<\/em><\/a><em id=\"emphasis-14796935aa275a0bcb2d95e61960d458\"> is an independent, nonprofit news organization that shines a light on governments, policies and public officials.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toulouse Oliver reverses course<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24699,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[266,28,138],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-24698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-election","tag-headlines","tag-new-mexico"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24698"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78641,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24698\/revisions\/78641"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24698"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=24698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}