​Elder Abuse Restraining Orders
You are eligible to apply for an Elder Abuse Restraining Order if:

• You need protection for someone:
  • Aged 65 or over
  • A "defendant adult:" someone between 18-64 with physical or mental limitations that restrict your ability to carry out normal activities or to protect your rights
  • A family or household member of one of the above. 
• AND someone is abusing the above-referenced person via:
  • Physical abuse
  • neglect
  • financial abuse
  • abandonment
  • isolation
  • abduction, or
  • treatment resulting in physical harm, pain or mental suffering.

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​School Violence Restraining Orders
You are eligible to apply for an School Violence Restraining Order if you are the chief administrative officer or designee of a private post-secondary educational institution, and:

• You need protection for:
  • A student,
  • A family or household member of a student, or
  • In some situations, other students at the campus or facility who are similarly situated. 
• ...Based on any of the following grounds:
  • A student has suffered a credible threat of violence from any other person, and 
  • the credible threat of violence, while made off campus/facility, can reasonably be construed to  be carried out or have been carried out at the school campus/facility, and 
    
  • ​respondent's conducts is not allowable as a legitimate labor dispute, and
    
  • respondent is not engaged in a constitutionally protected activity. 

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Don't feel like your situation fits neatly into one of these categories, but you still feel like you need a restraining order?  Call Devina and she can help explain your options. 

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The Law Office of Devina Douglas 
700 College Ave.​
Santa Rosa, CA 95404
(P) 707.408.3529
(F) 707.948.6097
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