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March 2021

We added a Safety When an Abuser Gets Out of Jail section with six new questions to help survivors know when an abuser will be released, and steps they can take to stay safe. Added within our Safety Tips section, in English. Spanish is coming soon!

We translated into Spanish our Utah Restraining Orders section.

February 2021

We updated and reorganized our Maine Gun Laws section to make it more state specific and easier to use. This included updates to 15 questions in English! Spanish coming soon! We also added one related statute to our Maine Selected State Statutes section.

We updated all 14 questions in our Financial Abuse section in English and Spanish. For example, we added six more signs of abuse to What is financial abuse? What are the signs to look out for? plus we improved the information in the other questions as well.

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