False Reports and False Identity

• Giving a false report of a crime, or false information to an officer relating to a crime, knowing it is false.
• A false fire alarm, or a false request for an ambulance.
• A false report about a missing child, a missing person or a missing endangered adult.
• A complaint to an officer's employer alleging misconduct, knowing the complaint is false.

• §IC 35-44.1-2-3StatuteFalse reporting; false informing; swattingOpens iga.in.gov ↗

Any of those is false informing, a Class B misdemeanor, and a Class A misdemeanor where it substantially hinders law enforcement, including by causing officers to be sent, or harms someone. A false report that a person is dangerous is a Class A misdemeanor, a Level 6 felony where it hinders, harms or would terrorize a reasonable person, and a Level 5 felony where it results in serious bodily injury or death.

• §IC 35-44.1-2-3StatuteFalse reporting; false informing; swattingOpens iga.in.gov ↗

Meaning to mislead public servants, knowingly making at least two material statements about one's own identity, within a five year period and in official proceedings or investigations, so inconsistent that one of them must be false, is false identity statement, a Class A misdemeanor. That the statements are or were accurate is a defense.

• §IC 35-44.1-2-4StatuteFalse identity statementOpens iga.in.gov ↗