Guns and Domestic Abusers: Protective Orders and Gun Removal in Montgomery County, Maryland

This report examines how Montgomery County District Courts currently apply existing gun laws in criminal domestic violence dockets and suggests court policies and practices that...

This report provides quotes from our courtroom monitors’ notes documenting the many and varied innovative approaches taken by Montgomery County District Court judges and courthouse...

This report is Court Watch’s first look at the protective order process in Montgomery County’s Circuit Court. In it we analyze data collected over a...

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,...