Document Author: National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges

Court personnel, including both those in administrative or managerial roles and those who staff clerk’s offices, intake centers, self-help centers, and other public-facing offices, are critical to the implementation of […]

Community supervision officers play many roles in the criminal justice system, each of which provides unique opportunities to enhance the safety of victims and to hold offenders accountable for the […]

This document provides a checklist of strategies for judges to improve the response to firearms in civil protection order cases. Main topics include steps to assemble multi-disciplinary collaborative teams, mapping […]

Break the Cycle refined its scoring system in order to better assess the way that state civil domestic violence protection order laws address the needs of teen victims of domestic […]

This publication is an interview with Chief Judge Berryl Anderson of DeKalb County Magistrate Court, DeKalb County, Georgia. The interview focuses on the creation and implementation of DeKalb County’s Civil […]

A protection order (also known as a restraining order) can help protect victims of physical, sexual, or emotional abuse from the person being abusive. It is called an “order” because […]

This will go over the following questions: 1. What is a protection order? 2. Where can I get a protection order? 3. Who can get a protection order? 4. Who […]