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August 2020

We added a Title IX National Organizations page and six new organizations in English. Spanish translation coming soon.

We translated into Spanish all of our restraining orders information for Indiana, including Orders for Protection (due to domestic violence, harassment, stalking, or a sex offense)​, Workplace Violence Restraining Orders, Moving to Another State with an Indiana Order of Protection and Enforcing an Out-of-State Order in Indiana.

We added eight questions to a Rhode Island Extreme Risk Protective Orders page.

We added seven statutes on extreme risk protection orders to our Selected Rhode Island Statutes page.

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