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November 2017
In D.C., we added information in English and Spanish about the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) to the question What will happen if the abuser tries to purchase a gun? We will soon make the same changes in every state!
We added the crime of unauthorized use of personally identifying information to our Michigan Crimes page and State Statutes page.
We added the crime of identity fraud and impersonation to our Massachusetts Crimes page in English and Spanish and to our State Statutes page in English.
We added a new Kentucky Housing Laws page on housing protections for victims of domestic violence, interpersonal violence, and certain crimes.
We updated the Eastern Shore Coalition Against Domestic Violence resource on our Virginia Where to Find Help page.
October 2017
We translated into Spanish the Ways Courts Use Technology page.
We updated and added some information to our general Parental Kidnapping page in English and Spanish.
We added information to “If I am the victim of a crime, where can I get additional help?”, on the Wisconsin Crimes page. “The Wisconsin Department of Justice also runs Safe at Home, Wisconsin’s address confidentiality program for victims of abuse, stalking, trafficking, and those in fear for their physical safety.”
We added information to the question What is virtual visitation? in our page about about Ways Courts Use Technology. It includes information on how virtual visitation could be requested as part of a relocation request. Both in English and Spanish.
We edited and updated our Arkansas Domestic Violence Order of Protection page in English.
We updated resources on our State Resources: Oregon page in English. (42 updated resources on our Oregon Local Programs page; 2 on our Statewide Programs page; 1 on our Lawyer Referral Services page; and 19 on our Legal Assistance page.)
We translated into Spanish our completely new section called Safety Planning with Children.
We added information about the abuser paying for the victim’s costs in the question How can a protective order help me? in our Louisiana Protective Orders (for Domestic Abuse) section.
We added the crime of identity fraud to our Maryland Crimes page and State Statutes page.
We added the crime of misuse of identification to our Maine Crimes page and State Statutes page.
We added the crime of identity theft to the Louisiana Crimes page and State Statutes page.
We added the crime of identity theft to the Kentucky Crimes page and State Statutes page.
We added the crimes of identity theft and false impersonation to our Kansas Crimes page and State Statutes page.
We added the crime of identity theft to the Iowa Crimes page and State Statutes page.
After two years of planning and hard work, we launched the new version of WomensLaw.org on October 24, 2017! The website is now fully mobile too!
We revised the information on our Mississippi Divorce page regarding irreconcilable differences.
We added new information in Spanish to the question What is the legal definition of “dating violence” in Texas? (English was previously added).
September 2017
Based on changes to Minnesota laws, we updated our Harassment Restraining Orders page, revising the information we had and adding a new question called How can a harassment restraining order be served? We also added a corresponding statute to our Statutes page.
We added a new resource to our National Organization Child Abuse page in English and Spanish.
We re-wrote the Kansas Protection from Stalking or Sexual Assault Orders based on changes to Kansas law, adding new questions and updating the rest of the information.
We updated 3 resources on our Kansas Local Programs page.
We added a Vulnerable Adult Protection Orders page in English in the Washington Restraining Orders section and 9 corresponding statutes in the State Statutes page.
We added a Montana state-specific Divorce page and 4 corresponding statutes to our State Statutes page.
We updated resources on our Montana Where to Find Help page in English. (1 Statewide; 25 Advocates and Shelters; 3 Legal Assistance; 1 Finding a Lawyer)
We added the crime of “battery of a dating partner” and “aggravated assault upon a dating partner” to our Louisiana Crimes page. These crimes were added to Louisiana’s laws in August 2017.
We added a new resource for crime victims to our Arkansas Crimes page in English and Spanish.
We added the crime of sexual extortion in English and Spanish to our Arkansas Crimes page and in English to our Statutes page. The crime was added to Arkansas law in August 2017.
We updated resources on our Michigan Where to Find Help page in English. Spanish soon to come! (1 Statewide; 36 Legal Assistance; 6 Lawyer Referral Services)
We re-wrote the Enforcing an Out-of-State Protection Order in Alaska page based on changes to the law that take effect on September 17, 2017.
We added a state-specific Divorce page in Minnesota and 3 corresponding statutes in the State Statutes page.
We added a page in Washington on Extreme Risk Protection Orders in English and 8 corresponding statutes to the State Statutes page.
In our Hawaii Know the Laws section, we added information to the question What types of orders for protection are there? How long do they last? about an order for a “period of separation” that police officers can issue. We also added the corresponding statute to our Statutes page.
We added a small section in English and Spanish to our Colorado Restraining Orders section called Civil Protection Order Filed by an Employer in order to clarify that an employer can file for a domestic violence protection order, which is not the case in most states.
We added a California Workplace Violence Restraining Order page in English to provide information on the corresponding state statute.
We updated our Illinois Download Court Forms page in English and Spanish, adding additional links to court forms.
August 2017
We translated into Spanish the GPS Monitoring page, which was added to our Technology Abuse section in English in June.
Based on feedback from a focus group of WomensLaw.org users, we changed the title of our State and Local Programs pages to Advocates and Shelters (in Spanish, Intercesoras y Albergues). We hope that this new title more clearly conveys what is found on the page!
In our North Carolina Divorce section, we translated into Spanish the question What are the reasons I can get an annulment?
We translated into Spanish the new Computer Crimes page that was added in English to our Technology Abuse section in July.
We translated into Spanish our newly-rewritten Helping Others - Family, Friends and Co-workers page.
We updated 38 resources on our Maryland Local Programs page in English. Spanish soon to come!
We added the crimes of identity deception and synthetic identity deception to the Indiana Crimes page and State Statutes page.
We added the crimes of false personation and identity theft in English and Spanish to the Illinois Crimes page and State Statutes page.
We added the crimes of false personation, intimidation by false assertion of authority, misappropriation of personal identifying information, and acquisition of personal identifying information by false authority to our Idaho Crimes page and State Statutes page.
We updated 74 resources on our Michigan Local Programs page in English. Spanish soon to come!
We added a new resource to our Louisiana Local Programs page.
We added a new section to the Learn About Abuse page called In the Workplace. In it, we created a new section explaining Workplace Restraining Orders (Filed by Employers) and we revamped our Sexual Harassment page (and renamed it Sexual Harassment by a Co-Worker/Boss). All changes were made in English and Spansh.
We completely reorganized and renamed our Safety Tips page (formerly known as Staying Safe) and we added a new section called Safety Planning with Children in English. Spanish soon to come!
We updated the resources on the Montana Statewide Programs page.
We added the crimes of obtaining property by false personation, home or private business invasion by false personation, making false statement to obtain property or credit, criminal use of personal identification information, unlawful possession of the personal identification information of another person in English and Spanish to our Florida Crimes page.
We added the crimes of identity fraud and aggravated identity fraud in English and Spanish to the Georgia Crimes page.
We added the crimes of identity theft, unauthorized possession of confidential personal information, and harassment by impersonation to the Hawaii Crimes page.
We added a Maryland state-specific Divorce page in English and five corresponding statutes to the State Statutes page.
We updated 5 resources in English on our Missouri Statewide Programs page.
We added information in English to our Washington Custody page about limiting the parental rights of an offender when a child is conceived from sexual assault and a related statute to our State Statutes page.
We added a new question in English and Spanish to our Washington State Gun Laws page called What is the penalty for violating state or federal firearm laws?
We added new information in English and Spanish to our Washington Restraining Orders section (in multiple questions) about the penalty for violating each type of protection order.
We added information to our Washington Sexual Assault Protection Orders section in English and Spanish about the factors that a judge will consider when deciding whether or not to extend a protection order to the questions How do I extend my protection order? and What factors will a judge take into consideration when deciding whether or not to extend my order?
We added a California state-specific Gun Violence Restraining Orders page and ten corresponding statutes to the State Statutes page.
We added a Nebraska state-specific Divorce page and three corresponding statutes to the State Statutes page.
We completely re-wrote and re-organized our Colorado State Gun Laws page in English and Spanish.
We updated the following resources in English on our Pennsylvania Where to Find Help page: 58 legal assistance organizations, 25 lawyer referral services, 78 local programs, and 4 statewide programs. Spanish translation Soon!
We updated 3 island-wide domestic violence resources, and added 2 island-wide domestic violence resources on our Guam Island-wide Domestic Violence Resources page.
We translated into Spanish the following resources on our Florida Where to Find Help page: 46 local programs, 2 statewide programs, 59 legal assistance organizations, and 12 lawyer referral services.
We translated our Maryland Download Court Forms page into Spanish.We translated our Maryland Peace Orders page into Spanish.
We translated our new Oklahoma Victim Protective Orders page into Spanish. (English was created in June 2017.)
We added Upsolve, a legal aid clinic, to our New York Legal Assistance page in Spanish.
We added ”eavesdropping” in Spanish to our Illinois Crimes page.
We added ”tracking device; placement or installment on motor vehicle without consent” in Spanish to our Michigan Crimes page.
We added ”photographing, videotaping or electronically surveilling partially nude or nude person or the sexual or other intimate parts of a person around the person’s clothing” and “dissemination or possession of obscene matter” in Spanish to our Massachusetts Crimes page.
July 2017
We finished translating into Spanish everything on the Virginia Know the Laws section!
We translated into English all of the resources on the Puerto Rico Where to Find Help page: (3 Law School Legal Clinics; 1 Lawyer Referral Service; 27 Legal Assistance programs; 13 Sheriff Departments; 5 Statewide Programs).
We translated 39 resources into Spanish on our Texas Where to Find Help page: (1 Statewide Program, 12 Legal Assistance programs, 3 Statewide Legal Assistance programs, 16 Legal Assistance for Battered Immigrant Women programs, and 7 Lawyer Referral Services).
We translated our Virginia Statewide Programs page into Spanish. (The information was updated in English in April).
We updated the Texas Download Court Forms page in English and Spanish.
We added a Vermont state-specific Divorce page and three corresponding statutes to the State Statutes page.
We updated 1 resource and added 24 resources on our Pennsylvania Lawyer Referral Services page in English. Spanish translation coming soon!
We updated our Pennsylvania Local Programs (updated 78 resources) and Statewide Programs (updated 4 resources) pages in English. Spanish translation coming soon!
We added a new page to our Preparing for Court section on Ways Courts Use Technology in English and Spanish.
We re-wrote our Helping Others - Family, Friends and Co-workers page in English. Spanish soon to come!
In our Virginia Protective Orders section, we improved the question called What is the definition of an act of violence, force, or threat? by hyperlinking the crimes to their legal definitions in the statutes in English and Spanish. We also added a relevant statute to the State Statutes page.
We added the crime of identity theft to the Colorado Crimes page in English and Spanish.
We added the crime of identity theft to the California Crimes page in English and Spanish.
We added the crime of identity theft to the Arizona Crimes page in English and Spanish.
We added the crime of prohibited conduct relating to spyware to the Alaska Crimes page.
We added the crime of identity theft to the Alabama Crimes page.
We added the crime of child custody interference to the Idaho Crimes page.
We added a New Hampshire state-specific Divorce page and three corresponding statutes to our State Statutes page.
We added a link to our Technology Abuse page in each state’s Crimes page in English and Spanish.
We added a new Computer Crimes page in English to our Technology Abuse section.
We translated all 126 resources on our Texas Local Programs page into Spanish.
We updated 1 resource in the Statewide Programs, 16 resources in the Legal Assistance for Battered Immigrant Women, and 7 resources in the Lawyer Referral Services pages and edited 4 resources in the Legal Assistance page of Texas in English. Spanish translation is coming soon!
We updated 2 resources in the Florida Statewide Programs page in English and Spanish.
June 2017
We updated the links on our South Dakota Download Court Forms page.
We re-wrote and re-organized our South Dakota State Gun Laws page.
We added the U.S. Virgin Islands Bar Association Lawyer Referral Service to the U.S. Virgin Islands Finding a Lawyer page.
We added TLC House to the Indiana Local Programs page.
We updated the resource information on our Wyoming Lawyer Referral Services page.
We updated all of the resources on our Texas Local Programs page in English. Spanish translation coming soon.
We added the crimes of voyeurism and interception to our Indiana Crimes page.
Based on a change to Tennessee law, we added information about a law enforcement officer being able to file for an order to the question: Am I eligible to file for a protection order?
We edited all of the Texas Statewide Programs in English. We also updated the Texas Statewide Legal Assistance page, the Legal Assistance for Battered Immigrant Women page, and the Lawyer Referral Services page in English. Spanish translation coming soon.
We added a new resource, the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Surveillance Self-Defense toolkit, to our Technology Abuse section in Spanish and English.
We created a new Oklahoma Victim Protective Orders page and added 3 accompanying statutes to our State Statutes page in English.
We revised the Maryland Peace Orders page in English.
We added the crime of electronic and mechanical eavesdropping to our Iowa Crimes page.
We translated into Spanish our Pennsylvania Protection from Sexual Violence or Intimidation Orders page.
Based on changes to Wisconsin laws, we added information to our Domestic Abuse Injunctions page, Child Abuse Restraining Orders page, and Individual at Risk Restraining Orders page.
We added a new resource, Hopeful Horizons, to our South Carolina Legal Assistance page.
We added a GPS Monitoring page in English to our Technology Abuse section. Spanish translation coming soon!
We added the crime of eavesdropping to our Kentucky Crimes page and State Statutes page.
We added the crime of interception and disclosure of wire, electronic, or oral communications to our Louisiana Crimes page and State Statutes page.
We translated our Virginia Custody page into Spanish. The translation of all of the information in our Virginia Know the Laws section is now complete!
We updated 45 resources in the Local Programs, 12 resources in the Lawyer Referral Services, and 57 resources in Legal Assistance pages of Florida in English. Spanish translation coming soon!
We added the crime of recording telephone conversations to our Georgia Crimes page.
We added the U.S. Virgin Islands Bar Association Lawyer Referral Service to the U.S. Virgin Islands Finding a Lawyer page.
We re-wrote and re-organized our South Dakota State Gun Laws page.
We updated the links on our South Dakota Download Court Forms page.
May 2017
We added information to our Rhode Island State Gun Laws section about a 2017 law that orders surrender of all firearms upon conviction of, or pleading no contest to, various felony crimes against a family or household member. We also added the relevant statute to our Statutes page.
We updated the legal information on our Pennsylvania Divorce page in English and Spanish based on a change in the law. We also updated the links to outside sources and added a new link to the Pennsylvania Courts website with information on representing oneself in a divorce.
Based on an addition to the law, we added new information in English and Spanish to the question In which county can I file for a protective order? on our Oklahoma Domestic Violence Protective Orders page.
We translated three questions on our Oklahoma Stalking Protective Orders page, completing the translation of that section into Spanish.
After receiving an email from a prosecutor in Michigan, we added more detailed information to the question about the cost of filing a petition on all three of our Michigan Personal Protection Orders pages. We also added one relevant statute to our Michigan Statutes page.
We added the crimes of photographing, videotaping or electronically surveilling partially nude or nude and person or the sexual or other intimate parts of a person around the person’s clothing and dissemination or possession of obscene matter to our Massachusetts Crimes page.
We made updates to our Virginia Guns and Protective Orders section in both English and Spanish.
We added Women Against Violence Europe (WAVE) to our National Organizations/American Women Abroad page in both English and Spanish.
We added the crime of tracking device; placement or installment on motor vehicle without consent to our Michigan Crimes page.
We added the crimes of wiretapping and tampering with computer data to our Missouri Crimes page.
April 2017
We updated the information for all 77 family courts that are listed on our New York Family Courts page in English and Spanish.
With the help of Tess Meuer from the Wisconsin Coalition Against Domestic Violence, we corrected and updated our Wisconsin Restraining Orders pages.
We added a link to information about Crime Victims Compensation to our New York Crimes page in Spanish and English.
In response to an Email Hotline inquiry, we added the law Consent required from noncustodial parent to relocate child when primary physical custody established; petition for permission from court; attorney’s fees and costs to our Nevada Statutes page.
Based on recent additions to New Jersey laws, we added information in English and Spanish to our Sexual Assault Restraining Orders page, our Domestic Violence Restraining Orders page, and we added the crime of cyberharassment to our Crimes page and Statutes page.
We translated the Maryland Suing Your Abuser page into Spanish.
We updated 11 resources on the Utah Legal Assistance page.
We updated 1 resource on the Utah Lawyer Referral Services page.
We updated our Illinois Workplace Protections in English and Spanish page based on 2017 changes to the law.
We updated the links to outside sources on our Illinois Divorce page in English and Spanish.
