I am sorry for your situation. However, anyone can do a background check on anyone else. Executing a background check merely means contacting a company that does an aggregate search on your public records. Therefore, no law has been breached criminally or in Tort, since all she did was technically look up public records. You can send her a Cease and Desist letter from an attorney asking to her to stay away and can get a restraining order if she is stalking you, or threatening you or your family, but simply doing the background check itself is not illicit, per se.

For more on restraining orders, please see here:

http://www.womenslaw.org/laws_state_type.php?statelaw_name=Restraining%20Orders&state_code=KY

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