Protective orders are designed to safeguard victims of domestic violence, stalking, sexual assault, and other crimes by legally requiring abusers to stay away. However, obtaining one can be daunting ...

A temporary protective order for stalking has been filed and granted against a longtime Reno judge, according to court ...

David J. Kessler, Jami Mills Vibbert and Alex Altman of Norton Rose Fulbright US write: In the digital age, the bench and bar should recognize that protective orders should be drafted not only to ...

The Washington Hope Card program, initially launched Jan. 1, has now sent out 2,000 wallet-sized copies of protection orders for vulnerable adults and survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, ...

State Sen. Jason Prokop said that after speaking with multiple advocates and survivors, he thinks protection orders are not ...

A Tacoma woman and her ex-boyfriend who died in a homicide-suicide earlier this month sought protection orders against each other for domestic violence, court records show. Diana Pham, 39, died from a ...

Cassandra felt hopeless. “The police keep telling me to get a protection order, but it keeps getting denied because I haven’t had any physical abuse,” she explained. “But my ex keeps driving by, ...

The bill is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Defense, and nine other states have similar legislation in place already.