Legal Reform Clears the Way to Protection
The last thing a person seeking a court-issued Protection Order (PO) wants to deal with is a morass of confusing paperwork. Yet, before July of this year, that is exactly what they would get. The Washington State legal system had five distinct kinds of protection orders depending on the type of harm and relationship to the abuser. There were different orders for domestic violence, harassment, sexual assault, stalking, and vulnerable adults being abused or neglected.