Here’s the good stuff:
Amanda’s Bill would allow judges to impose electronic monitoring on domestic violence offenders deemed especially dangerous. “Of the states that have used this system, there has not been one death that resulted,” House Speaker Greg Stumbo said during a Sept. 24 press conference announcing the bill. The top Democratic lawmaker has since generated a slew of support for the bill, which he would like to see “signed into law by the governor and in effect literally before the end of January.”
Meanwhile, state Rep. Joni Jenkins, D-Louisville, is sponsoring a bill that would allow dating partners to obtain domestic violence protective orders. Currently, such protective orders are only available to married couples or those who have cohabitated or who have a child together.
“This is the kind of legislation we really need to take on in conjunction with prevention efforts,” says Denise Vazquez Troutman, president and CEO of The Center for Women and Families.
And then there’s:
BR 268 would designate June as Kentucky Rabies Awareness Month.
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4 responses so far ↓
1 jtt // Dec 29, 2009 at 2:01 pm
Get a grip folks – if dating partners DO have a domestic ASSAULT situation, they can take out criminal charges, which automatically come with “no contact” orders. What happens if two students in the same dorm are dating, they break up, and one decides to punish the other by getting an EPO? That means the other person can’t live in the dorm, or go to class (if they are in the same class, or nearby) until the hearing. Is this REALLY what you want?
Yes, people lie in these situations.
2 jake // Dec 29, 2009 at 2:47 pm
That is, indeed, one side of the issue and one opinion. But it’s also a generalization.
What I’d need to know before taking you seriously: Your gender, age, where you live, et al.
3 tbrauch // Dec 30, 2009 at 1:14 am
I’d be willing to bet $5 that jtt is a white male, I’d guess early 20′s but I’m not sold on that. I’d also guess the median income in the neighborhood that he calls home is at least twice the state median.
4 JTT // Dec 30, 2009 at 9:16 am
W/M yes, age 49, and no, my house is well below the median because I refuse to pay good money for junk houses. My house is well over 100 years old and solid brick. Which means I don’t live in the high priced part of town, but in the lower South End. I have a terminal level university degree. Salary in the 70s. I have a CCDW and carry most of the time.
I also work in the field of public health and injury prevention, and criminal justice, and am well equipped, by education, training and experience, to actually read and understand the statistics, and particularly, where they come from. Most of the data collection in the field of DV is highly biased by the collecting entity.
Dating EPOs are a nightmare – and even in the states that have them, the power is used rarely, because of that. Think about it, you date a person down the hall at work, break up, and next thing you know, he/she gets a EPO and you can’t go to work because there is a no-contact order. (Remember, they only get one side of the story in an EPO, the judge won’t even KNOW that you work together unless the petitioner puts it in the request.)
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