Legislative Agenda - SEXUAL ASSAULT AND STALKING RESTRAINING ORDER

One of Jane Doe Inc.'s three priority bills for the 2009-2010 Legislative Session is the creation of a criminally enforceable restraining order for victims of sexual assault and domestic violence who do not meet the relationship requirement for a 209A Abuse Protection Order.

On Thursday, September 17, the Joint Committee of the Judiciary

held a hearing on this bill.

We want to thank the Members of the Legislature who testified or stood in solidarity:
Senator Chandler and Representatives Atkins, Grant, Dykema, Ehrlich, Peake, Khan, Vallee, Ferrante, Hogan, Provost, L’Italien, & Gregoire.

It's not too late to make your voices heard!

We need your help to get this bill passed. Here are some tools and resources to help you learn more about the issue and how you can help.

1. Fact Sheet on the Bill. Senate Bill No. 1611, An Act to Establish a Stalking and Sexual Assault Restraining Order.

2. Educational Resource Materials, including a map with state by state comparison

3. Fact sheet on the issues

4. Testimony presented by Isa Woldeguiorguis, Director of Policy and Systems Advocacy at Jane Doe Inc.

5. Sample letter to Joint Committee on the Judiciary

6. Press Release from Jane Doe Inc. and the Boston Area Rape Crisis Center

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Jane Doe Inc. works with our membership to make sure that the needs of survivors of sexual assault and domestic violence are heard and understood by policy makers at the state and national level. We work for to affect broad-based social change that ensures the safety, dignity and liberty of survivors by shaping and influencing state and federal policies, legislation, protocols and other responses impacting intervention and prevention efforts.

To find out how you can help our advocacy efforts, please contact us at policy@janedoe.org or call 617-248-0922.

Advocacy Tools

I. To learn more about how a bill becomes law and the state budget process, click here.

II. To find your State Representative and State Senator, go to: http://www.wheredoivotema.com

III. To receive regular updates on our legislative efforts and action alerts, email us at info@janedoe.org.