House backs bill adding device-related stalking definition and option for accountability programs in protection orders
H.222 would expand definitions of stalking to include device-based surveillance, add temporary vehicle possession to relief available in protection orders, and allow courts to require completion of domestic violence accountability programs; the House ordered third reading after committee amendments.
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The Vermont House on Wednesday advanced H.222, an act that would change how courts handle certain civil protection orders by (1) clarifying that device-based stalking can meet the statutory "course of conduct" requirement, (2) allowing courts to award temporary possession of a vehicle to a victim in a relief-from-abuse order, and (3) authorizing courts to require defendants to complete a domestic violence accountability program (DVAP) as a condition of a relief-from-abuse order.
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