The Brief
- Under Michigan’s current PPO process, someone who obtains a protective order, often a domestic violence survivor, must ensure that the order is served on the respondent.
- The push for change intensified after the August killing of a Detroit woman, Latricia Green, who had been granted a PPO, but it was never served.
DETROIT (FOX 2) – There is a new push to change the law regarding what domestic violence survivors are required to do to serve personal protection orders (PPOs).
The proposed law would bring Michigan in line with more than 40 other states.
FOX 2 spoke with the two lawmakers behind the effort. This is bipartisan legislation.…