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Louisiana Protective
Order Registry (LPOR) |
2009 Training Schedule and Registration
Louisiana Protective Order Registry Receives FBI Award
The
Louisiana Protective Order Registry (LPOR)
is a statewide repository of court orders issued to prohibit domestic abuse and dating violence. The registry was established by legislative act (La. R.S. 46:2136.2) in 1997, for the purpose of enhancing court-ordered protections for victims and their minor children, and to aid law enforcement, prosecutors and the courts in handling cases involving intimate partner violence.
The Judicial Administrator’s Office of the Louisiana Supreme Court is responsible for developing and disseminating standardized forms, called “Louisiana Uniform Abuse Prevention Order” forms, and for collecting and entering the protection order data from all courts into the registry.
By law, records contained in the registry are to be made available to state and local law enforcement agencies, district attorney offices, the Department of Social Services, office of family support, support enforcement services, office of community services, the Department of Health and Hospitals, bureau of protective services, the Governor’s Office of Elderly Affairs, elderly protective services, the office of the attorney general, and the courts.
After a pilot phase, which began in late 1997 and continued through 1998, the registry was officially launched in April, 1999. Courts were expected to begin using the standardized forms and transmitting their orders of protection, both civil and criminal, to the registry no later than January 1, 2000.
From the pilot phase of the project through December 31, 2008, the registry received and entered a total of 189,983 orders. Of these, 144,394 (76%) were civil orders and 45,589 (24%) were criminal orders of protection.
As of December 31, 2008, the average number of daily searches of the registry by authorized users was 10,118 searches per day. In 22.33% of these searches, the result indicated a possible match with an order in the registry.
Trained registry staff members respond on a 24/7 basis to requests for order verification submitted by examiners with the FBI’s National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS), which is designed to prevent the sale of firearms and ammunition by a federally licensed gun dealer to anyone who is the subject of a qualifying order of protection.
These same and other trained staff members also respond on a 24/7 basis to requests for order verification submitted by local, state, and out-of-state law enforcement officials conducting investigations involving the subject of a Louisiana order of protection.
Last but not least, staff members respond during business hours to calls for general information about orders of protection, technical assistance in the use of the standardized order forms and the forms-related software, and requests for referrals from victims of domestic abuse and dating violence, who are searching for assistance provided in their particular community.
The Louisiana
Protective Order Registry is a project of the Office
of the Judicial Administrator, Supreme Court of Louisiana
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