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A CLOSER LOOK

- SOURCE: HOUSE BILL 3

AISHA’S LAW

Here are the provisions of House

Bill 3, known as Aisha’s Law, that is jointly sponsored by Reps. Janine

Boyd, D-Cleveland Heights, and Sara Carruthers, R-Hamilton:

■ Allows law enforcemen­t (with the consent of a domestic violence victim) to request an emergency temporary protection order from a judge anytime the court is not open;

■ Requires the court to issue a temporary emergency protection order if there is probable cause to believe that the victim is in immediate danger based on allegation­s of recent domestic violence incidents;

■ Expands the offense of domestic violence to include strangulat­ion;

■ An individual is eligible to be charged with aggravated murder if the victim was a prior domestic violence victim at the hand of the alleged perpetrato­r;

■ Requires high-risk domestic violence victims to be referred to local or regional domestic violence advocacy services;

■ Provides funds for the training of law enforcemen­t to use the newly mandated domestic violence risk assessment tool, which will evaluate both an offender’s risk of re-offending and a victim’s risk of lethal assault;

■ Creates a study committee on the prosecutio­n of domestic violence cases.

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