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Federal law prohibits any person who is subject to a state protective order from possessing a firearm, [23] provided that the protected party is an intimate partner, meaning a spouse or former spouse, or a person with whom the protected party has had a child. [24] Violating a restraining order is a deportable offense. [citation needed]
These records are still accessible by court order but are sealed from the public. Expungement under Section 19a allows for the expungement of criminal history if a person was the victim of identity theft and used that stolen identity to commit a crime. Section 60.18 Expungement allows for the expungement of Victim Protective Orders.
Seven people file for an emergency protective order in Fayette County each day — the vast majority women — according to a new report from Lexington’s Domestic and Sexual Violence Prevention ...
Expungement, which is a physical destruction, namely a complete erasure of one's criminal records, and therefore usually carries a higher standard, differs from record sealing, which is only to restrict the public's access to records, so that only certain law enforcement agencies or courts, under special circumstances, will have access to them.
Indiana on Friday became the first state in the nation to approve abortion restrictions since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, as the Republican governor quickly signed a near-total ...
Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall stated that Alabama law would allow the state to prosecute those who helped organize or finance trips by Alabamians to other states, in order to receive abortions, even if abortion were legal in those states. In July 2023, two abortion advocacy groups filed lawsuits seeking to prevent such prosecutions.
The state passed a law in the 2000s banning abortions after 22 weeks based on the theory that this is the point in development after which the fetus can feel pain. [13] The state was one of ten states in 2007 to have a customary informed consent provision for abortions. [14] During the 2010s, Indiana passed 14 bills restricting abortion.
A federal judge ordered Indiana to strike a provision in state law that allows people on humanitarian parole to obtain driver's licenses but only if they are from Ukraine. The judge granted a ...