Restraining Orders

If you are the petitioner, you can ask the judge to renew the one-year gun violence protective order. To do this, you can file a request for renewal within the three months before the original order is set to end. The respondent must receive notice of your request for renewal. Then the judge will consider relevant evidence, including all of the factors the judge considered when issuing the original order. The judge will renew the order if s/he decides the respondent still poses a significant danger of causing bodily injury to themselves or others by owning, buying, or receiving firearms or ammunition or having firearms or ammunition in his/her custody or control.¹

¹ Haw. Rev. Stat. § 134-66(b)