My Bio Father Has Been Constantly Harassing Me And My Family, And I Don’t Know Where To Go From Here.

Location: Texas

Hi everyone. I’m looking for general guidance about what steps I can take to protect myself from my biological father. I’m a young woman in the East Texas area, however I’ll keep this as non-identifying as possible.

For some background, I have never had a relationship with my biological father. My stepdad legally adopted me in my early teens, and my family had a restraining order against my biological father due to his violent and unsafe behavior, including showing up at our house multiple times. That order expired when I turned 18. Once I became an adult, he began contacting me on TikTok, Instagram, and other social media. I blocked him each time, but he repeatedly made new accounts. It got to the point where I could predict when the next message would come in. Eventually those messages stopped, but when I moved away for college, a girl approached me during sorority rush and started talking about him and saying what a great father figure he had been to her. This made me feel like he had found out where I was and sent someone to speak to me. When I moved back home, his mother reached out to me on Facebook. I blocked her as well. Then he showed up at my workplace, rolled down his window, and tried to talk to me. After that, he somehow got my phone number and texted me things like that I was “perfect.” I told him to stop and that I would take legal action, and he replied that I would “never hear from him again.” Recently, he sent a disturbing “prank package” to my house with my name on it. I am confident it came from him. The package contained a sexual item with his name on it and arrived in front of my family during Thanksgiving.

I’m feeling unsafe and unsure what to do next. I don’t know how to take legal action without escalating the situation or putting myself at more risk. Who would I report this to? Would my case be taken seriously considering his violent past? Grateful for any and all advice.