Family Courts
June 2nd, 2010
June 1st, 2010
March31st, 2010
Assisting judges implement more effective restraining orders.
As good as GPS monitoring systems are, existing GPS devices are simply a non-starter for the more volatile, family court litigant situations.
Those with victim notification, are showing their children, families, and co-workers, how to begin to take charge of their lives. Domestic violence not only affects the abused, but likewise has a substantial effect on family members, friends, co-workers, other witnesses, as well as the community. Children witnessing domestic violence, are among those seriously affected by this crime. Women requesting GPS victim notification devices, are breaking the cycle that violence is a normal way of life.
Victim notification is a powerful tool to assist breaking the cycle of domestic violence.
GPS systems were originally devised to assist Parole officers track and communicate with parolees. Future potential victims remain unknown.
However, the family court situation is different on many levels, including individuals restrained from an area knowingly violating restraining orders.
For this reason GPS monitoring concentrates on Victim Notification. Should an excluded area be violated, victims not offenders, receive an instant, electronic alert.
This is what sets GPS monitoring apart from all other tracking services currently on the market.
GPS monitoring victim notification also includes a, traveling "Safety zone." Should the victim visit an area not covered in a restraining order and the restrained person enter that same area either by accident or design, the victim is still electronically notified. Should that distance narrow - the victim is electronically notified again. The victim can then choose to leave.
Other tracking companies do not offer this.
They only monitor a specific area. The victim is not immediately contacted. Traveling safety features could have saved his live. See example below
One example: If Adrienne was alerted her ex-husband was closing in on her, she would have run the light. It's likely Adrienne wouldn't have been ticketed for taking evasive action, but if she had, at least Adrienne would have been alive to pay the fine.
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The following endorsement was sent to Bonnie Russell, founder of www.familylawcourts.com, who works tirelessly to end relationship murders.
Dear Bonnie,
I want to thank you for the extraordinary efforts you have been making
with your GPS system and extend my strongest support to you and Petra
on your demonstration to Judge Lorna Alksne, Supervising Judge of San
Diego's Family Court, on March 30th. Hopefully other judges will
attend the demonstration as well.
As you know, my sister Dominique Dunne, was a victim of domestic violence and the protection of future victims has been a passionate cause of mine as well as my late parents, Dominick Dunne and Ellen Griffin Dunne, who founded California Center for Victims of Homicide.
I really believe, and know my parents would have agreed, that the GPS System will not only save lives, but provide crucial proof when restraining orders have been violated.
Please feel free to forward my plea for the implementation of the GPS System to Judge Alksne and anyone else with influence that you might
find helpful for the cause. I also would like to offer my services to
appear in PSA's if you think that might help get the message out for this life saving innovation.
Warmest wishes,
Griffin Dunne
Other benefits
Exposing perjury GPS monitoring also works well for those people interested in proving they are not stalking anyone.
One case involved an individual whose wife claimed her former husband was stalking her. She applied for and received a Temporary Restraining Order along with a later court date to make the restraining order permanent.
Her former husband - who had not been stalking her, immediately signed up with GPS monitoring to have himself tracked, without mentioning this to anyone.
At the later hearing to make the order permanent the woman alleged violations of the earlier order.
That’s when the former husband produced data from GPS monitoring. He let the tracking do the talking; and the tracker exposed her tall tale.
Not only was a permanent restraining order denied, he thought of a very clever way to expose perjury. As perjury is something judges continually wrestle with, GPS monitoring made a significant impact.