Select Your State
As of early 2024, there are about 22 states which offer Extreme Risk Orders
Process Overview
Courts in every state have a well defined set of forms and steps for granting an Extreme Risk Protection Order. This website makes that process simpler by leading you through a series of online questionnaires and then at the end generates the paperwork. You can also E-file in almost all locations.
HOW THIS WEBSITE WORKS
This website provides a guided experience to people who are working themselves on preparing the court forms for a Domestic Violence Restraining Order.
1. Take Screening
Select the specific protection order you want to file for. Then answer a few questions to determine your eligibility.
2. Prepare Documents
Prepare the main set of your court documents by covering one topic at a time. Each topic offers questions in simple and non-legal language. Just do your best and in case you need help you can get reach out for help just with a few clicks.
3. Consult Advocate (Optional)
Depending on your situation, we can suggest any trusted free victim advocacy non profits. The advocate can assist you with certain aspects of the case and safety planning. They can review your case documents, and talk to you directly to discuss your case.
4. Submit to Court
Submit the paperwork to begin the legal process. You can do online depending on your local court or by printing and visiting the court in person.
FAQs
Do Extreme Risk Orders Help?
Here the outcome of a research on extreme risk
1. Cut Suicide Risk
Suicides risk is cut by 10% when firearms were removed from high risk persons under Connecticut’s Extreme Risk law.
Swanson J. and et al. “Implementation and Effectiveness of Connecticut’s Risk-Based Gun Removal Law: Does it Prevent Suicides?”Law and Contemporary Problems. (2017). https://scholarship.law.duke.edu/lcp/vol80/iss2/8
2. Prevent Mass Shootings
In about a third of all mass shootings, the murderer gave away signs of instability before the shooting. Source: Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund, “Mass Shootings in the United States,” March 2023, https://everytownresearch.org/mass-shooting-report/
3. Cities vs. Countryside
In all incidents of targeted school violence—100 percent— the perpetrator displayed suspicious behavior which was observed by others.
National Threat Assessment Center, “Protecting America’s Schools: A US Secret Service Analysis of Targeted School Violence,” US Secret Service, Department of Homeland Security, 2019, https://bit.ly/2U7vnwa.