This report was produced by the National Center for State Courts in collaboration with the Center for Court Innovation and the National Center for Protection Orders and Full Faith and Credit and supported by Grant No. 2016 TA-AX-K054 awarded by the Office on Violence Against Women, U.S. Department of Justice. It provides an overview of state protection order repositories and issues that impact transmission of data to the NCIC POF; offers guidance on the basic elements of designing, developing, and improving the quality and security of protection order data exchanges; and highlights state efforts to apply innovative technologies to their protection order systems.