This report focuses on the well-being of children living with domestic violence and how it is impacted by decisions judges make in final protective orders...
This report focuses on the well-being of children living with domestic violence and how it is impacted by decisions judges make in final protective orders...
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,...
In this report, which analyses data collected in over 2,500 protective order hearings in Montgomery County’s District Courts between September of 2016 and April of...
In 2020 the Maryland General Assembly updgraded strangulation and intentional suffocation from a second degree assault to first degree felony assault, indicating the seriousness of...