Mechanisms to Monitor and Enforce Compliance With Order

The following programs were submitted by jurisdictions to the Best Practices Institute during the summer/fall of 2001 and were updated during the summer/fall of 2002.  Please also check the nominations of “multiple practices” for more information on mechanisms to monitor and enforce compliance with order.

The key below explains the ratings:

Trial Court, Commonwealth of Massachusetts (BPI #029)

Seventeenth Judicial Circuit, Broward County, Florida (BPI #011). Additional information from contact: Jurisdiction has a population of 1.8 million full time residents. The practices are within the Family Division of the Circuit Court which has 9 judges and 3 additional judges who do only domestic violence cases. Staff processes an average of 900 civil protection orders a month. The practice can be scaled to work in nearly any size circuit.

Eighteenth Judicial Circuit, Brevard County, Florida  (BPI #019B)

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