For Washingtonians trying to cut contact with their domestic abusers and stalkers, civil protection orders are often a necessary legal step. But the process of filing one can be tricky to navigate.

Vancouver defense attorney Josephine Townsend walks into a courtroom Jan. 7, 2024, at the Clark County Courthouse. Townsend is accused of altering documents related to a civil protection order against ...

A visiting judge denied Montgomery County Clerk of Courts Mike Foley’s request for a pair of emergency civil protection orders this week after Foley claimed a former employee and a local activist both ...

In summer 2022, Brandon Montesi told a King County judge that he had no guns. His ex-wife, afraid for the lives of her family members and herself, said it was a lie. Montesi’s ex-wife had sought a ...

FARGO — North Dakota will close to the public civil protection order hearings for sexual assault and domestic violence cases next year, a move that advocates say will help protect the privacy of ...

A judge on Wednesday granted a permanent civil protection order against an Aspen man accused in the July assault and kidnapping of a local woman. Pitkin County Judge Ashley Andrews issued the order ...