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WAGR's new initiative for 2016: Extreme Risk Protection orders

solus

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PS Alpine, et al., why not mention the ER legislation passed this past April 2021...


AN ACT Relating to modernizing, harmonizing, and improving the
2 efficacy and accessibility of laws concerning civil protection
3 orders; amending RCW 9.41.040, 9.41.075, 9.41.801, 10.99.045,
4 26.55.010, 26.55.020, 26.55.030, 26.55.040, 26.55.050, 2.28.210,
5 4.08.050, 4.24.130, 7.77.060, 7.77.080, 9.41.010, 9.41.070, 9.41.173,
6 9.94A.411, 9.94A.515, 9.94A.525, 9.94A.637, 9.94A.660, 9.94A.662,
7 9.94A.703, 9.96.060, 9A.36.041, 9A.40.104, 9A.46.040, 9A.46.060,
8 9A.46.085, 9A.46.110, 9A.88.170, 9A.8

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NEW SECTION. Sec. 1. FINDINGS AND INTENT. (1) Washington state
28 has been a national leader in adopting legal protections to prevent
29 and respond to abuse, violence, harassment, stalking, neglect, or
30 other threatening behavior, through the enactment of different types
31 of civil protection orders, which are intended to provide a fast,
32 efficient means to obtain protection against perpetrators of these
33 harms.
NEW SECTION. Sec. 1. FINDINGS AND INTENT. (1) Washington state
28 has been a national leader in adopting legal protections to prevent
29 and respond to abuse, violence, harassment, stalking, neglect, or
30 other threatening behavior, through the enactment of different types
31 of civil protection orders, which are intended to provide a fast,
32 efficient means to obtain protection against perpetrators of these
33 harms.
34 (2) Washington state has enacted six different types of civil
35 protection orders: (a) Domestic violence protection orders, adopted
36 by the legislature in 1984; (b) vulnerable adult protection orders,
37 adopted by the legislature in 1986; (c) antiharassment protection
p. 2 E2SHB 1320.SL

1 orders, adopted by the legislature in 1987; (d) sexual assault
2 protection orders, adopted by the legislature in 2006; (e) stalking
3 protection orders, adopted by the legislature in 2013; and (f)
4 extreme risk protection orders, enacted by a vote of the people
5 through Initiative Measure No. 1491 in 2016.

H U Z Z A H
BIDEN HAS HIS POSTER STATE and all done quietly by WA elected overseers under the Washington citizen's noses!

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