COVID Impact Report: Intimate Partner Violence and the Montgomery County Courts during the COVID Pandemic

This is a summary of testimony given by Court Watch’s Executive Director, Laurie Duker, before the Neshante & Chloe Davis Domestic Violence Prevention Task Force....

This report documents the tragic deaths of 35 children state-wide in intimate partner related violence. Almost a third were killed during dangerous court-ordered exchanges for...

Domestic violence protective orders play a critical role in keeping firearms away from abusers under federal and Maryland law. When effectively enforced, protective orders that...

Civil protection orders are intended to protect victims of domestic violence by directing abusive partners to stop harming or threatening them and, in most cases,...