Protect Friends & Families of Incarcerated Individuals From PrePaid Phone Companies (Evercom, Correctional Billing) Unfair Deceptive Business Practice

Protect Friends & Families of Incarcerated Individuals From Monopolizing PrePaid Phone Companies (Evercom, Correctional Billing) Unfair Deceptive Business Practices Petition

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Protecting Yourself if You are Being Stalked

I. STALKING CHECKLIST To help determine whether you or someone you know is a victim of stalking, see if anything on the following checklist of sample stalking behaviors matches your situation. Does a current or former spouse or boyfriend, friend, coworker, neighbor, casual acquaintance or complete stranger . . . Leave harassing, threatening or obscene [...]

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HIV/AIDS and Domestic Violence

Women’s inability to negotiate safe sex and refuse unwanted sex is closely linked to the high prevalence HIV/AIDS. Unwanted sex — from being unable to say “no!” to a partner and be heard, to sexual assault such as rape — results in a higher risk of abrasion and bleeding, providing a ready avenue for transmission [...]

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OK…..Now What??

Everybody wants battered women to ‘make better choices’, or to ‘get out’ or ‘leave their abuser’ and ‘dont go back…’ I did that… okay, now what? I know women who did everything right, called the police, got the protective order, left, moved, ceased contact, got a job, never went back; and 10 years later their [...]

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RATE OF FAMILY VIOLENCE DROPPED BY MORE THAN ONE-HALF FROM 1993 TO 2002

RATE OF FAMILY VIOLENCE DROPPED BY MORE THAN ONE-HALF FROM 1993 TO 2002 WASHINGTON, D.C. – The rate of family violence fell by more than one-half between 1993 and 2002, from an estimated 5.4 victims to 2.1 victims per 1,000 U.S. residents 12 years old and older, reflecting the general decline in crimes against people [...]

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Breaking The Silence – Moms Losing Child Custody To Their Batterers?

This is an eight minute excerpt of the program that aired on Public Television in October of 2005. The documentary tells the stories of children who are taken away from their protective mothers.

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The Violence Against Women Act

(Source: NNEDV)For a one-page overview of VAWA 2005, please download our VAWA 2005 Fact Sheet (PDF). For a full summary of program changes, please download our VAWA 2005 Summary (PDF). You can also download the VAWA 2005 statute, (PL 109-162). On January 5, 2006, the Violence Against Women Act of 2005 (VAWA) was signed into [...]

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Faillure to Protect – The Castle Rock/Gonzales Case

(Source: NNEDV)TOWN OF CASTLE ROCK, CO v. JESSICA GONZALES – 2005The Supreme Court examined if Jessica Gonzales, whose three daughters were killed by her estranged husband, can raise a procedural due process claim in federal court for the Town of Castle Rocks failure to enforce her protective order. NNEDV’s amicus brief supporting Jessica Gonzales’s case [...]

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Can Police Search If One Co-Habitant Consents and the Other Refuses Entry? Supreme Court Says NO!

(Source: NNEDV)GEORGIA V. RANDOLPH – 2006The Supreme Court examined whether it is unconstitutional for police to search a home when a co-habitant consents and the other co-habitant is present and does not consent. On March 22, 2006, the Court ruled that it is a violation of a citizen’s Fourth Amendment right against unreasonable searches if [...]

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Should Victims Be Able to use 911 Calls in Leiu of Testimony in Court?

(Source: NNEDV)ADRIAN MARTELL DAVIS v. WASHINGTON and HERSEL HAMMON v. INDIANA – 2006The Supreme Court examined whether 911 calls or on-scene statements were subject to the Confrontation Clause restrictions enunciated in Crawford v. Washington, 541 U.S. 36 (2004). NNEDV submitted an amicus brief urging the court to recognize evidence-based prosecution as an effective means to [...]

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