In a surprising article that circulated our contribution yahoo group at http://groups.yahoo.com/groups/gyjlnews, a Wisconsin newspaper came right out and said about a statute involving “Domestic Violence” that “what has happened is people have discovered this statute, and it’s being grossly abused,” Judge James Welker said. “All of those that get dismissed are a waste of time.”
Ted Sullivan reported in his article Wasteful Restraining Orders Clog Rock County Courts that in their “analysis of court data indicates nearly 70 percent of requests for restraining orders in 2008 were quashed because petitioners failed to appear in court, asked for their case to be dismissed or couldn’t prove they were in danger.”
The finding of this community’s court house has been reasonably suppressed in other areas throughout the Country that have alluded to Domestic Violence laws being abused in various jurisdictions. In one response an attorney said that domestic violence allegations and personal protection orders are used as a form of “hillbilly child custody proceeding” to gain a quick result involving divorcing or separating parents and the need for courts to divide the time of children between the two. Domestic violence allegations are often used to create an inequality of that division of time according to statements made.
One organization that we have solicited comment from is Respecting Accuracy in Domestic Abuse Reporting on the article’s finding, to see if R.A.D.A.R. has come up with similar findings. I have also requesting information from one other organization to see if the findings concur with their findings and general opinions. Their commentary will be included in a subsequent addition to this article if received in time.
One special report that seems to concur with the findings of the article is the waste of taxpayer resources involving this area of law. To read the R.A.D.A.R. report $1 Billion for DV Programs That Misuse Taxpayer Money and Place Victims at Risk, click here.
One thing is clear, that many of these special interest programs need to be scoured for gender bias results and abuse/misuse stemming from the massive amount of taxpayer money that is being funneled to the programs. The question that becomes apparent is the government driving a solution or rather … are they producing the result.
Original Article Source for Comments Located: http://gazettextra.com/news/2009/jul/12/wasteful-restraining-orders-clog-rock-county-court/
