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The Domestic Violence Division hears both civil and criminal actions involving issues of domestic violence. Some of the types of actions this division hears are: civil orders of protection, civil no contact orders, stalking no contact orders, and criminal actions involving relationships defined by the Illinois Domestic Violence Act. [24]
Courts will be able to hand out protection orders even when individuals have been acquitted if sufficient evidence exists to indicate they pose a risk
Feb. 17—WORTHINGTON — A man is in police custody on charges of stalking after he allegedly made contact last week with a person whom he's been ordered on multiple occasions not to contact. A ...
New guidance says it is ‘likely’ courts will apply the lower civil standard of proof for stalking protection orders, not the criminal standard. Barriers to stalking orders lowered to improve ...
A restraining order issued by the Justice Court of Las Vegas. A restraining order or protective order [a] is an order used by a court to protect a person in a situation often involving alleged domestic violence, child abuse and neglect, assault, harassment, stalking, or sexual assault.
On September 23, 2020, the Governor of California, Gavin Newsom signed executive order N-80-20 allowing local health officers and public health officials access to the state's Safe at Home program, due to their being "subject to threats and other harassment, including threats and harassment targeted at their places of residence, which threatens ...
Stalking Protection Orders (SPOs) were introduced five years ago but a Freedom of Information request by the BBC found 1,388 SPOs were issued by the 40 forces who responded to the request.
A few states have both stalking and harassment statutes that criminalize threatening and unwanted electronic communications. [46] The first anti-stalking law was enacted in California in 1990, and while all fifty states soon passed anti-stalking laws, by 2009 only 14 of them had laws specifically addressing "high-tech stalking."