Significant changes to Connecticut Restraining Orders and domestic violence laws will take effect on October 1, 2012. The amendments are designed to provide victims of domestic violence greater support from the courts and law enforcement agencies.
The biggest change is that the new law extends from six months to one year the maximum period that a civil restraining order can remain in effect without a court extension.
The new law also makes stalking or patterns of threatening between family members a form of family violence.
Also, upon request by a crime victim, the new law requires Prosecutors to notify crime victims when a defendant’s criminal charges have been dismissed or nolled.
Here is the Public Act:
http://www.cga.ct.gov/2012/ACT/Pa/pdf/2012PA-00114-R00HB-05548-PA.pdf