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Nonilex<p>A month later, there were 2 massive fires on Willey's property. In 2 years, Webb heard from community members that he intended to shoot her if she stepped onto his land again.<br>A govt atty encouraged Webb to use Maryland's <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/RedFlag" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RedFlag</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> &amp; submit a petition for an extreme-risk protection order, or <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ERPO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ERPO</span></a>. This involved explaining to a judge, under oath, that Willey presented an imminent risk to Webb &amp; her team, &amp; why his <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/guns" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>guns</span></a> should be temporarily confiscated.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/GunControl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GunControl</span></a></p>
Chuck Darwin<p>Kamala Harris announces new office to implement ‘red flag’ laws </p><p>The White House has announced a new national office to support states implementing “<a href="https://c.im/tags/red" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>red</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/flag" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>flag</span></a>” laws to combat <a href="https://c.im/tags/gun" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gun</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/violence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>violence</span></a>, an initiative funded by the justice department.</p><p>Kamala Harris made the announcement on Saturday during a visit to <a href="https://c.im/tags/Parkland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Parkland</span></a>, Florida, where she toured the site of the nation’s worst high school shooting, the 2018 Marjory Stoneman Douglas massacre that killed 17.</p><p>The vice-president met with victims’ families <br>– many of whom have been active in gun control advocacy since the shooting <br>– and visited the building where 14 students and three staff members were slain.</p><p>The launch of the federal 🔹Extreme Risk Protection Order Resource Center 🔹( <a href="https://c.im/tags/Erpo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Erpo</span></a> ) follows Joe Biden’s establishment of the White House 🔸Office of Gun Violence Prevention 🔸in September, which the president tapped Harris to lead.</p><p>Operated through the ⭐️Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions⭐️, and paid for by a justice department grant, Erpo is designed to help state and local governments, law enforcement, and others <br>– including behavioral health and social service providers <br>– “optimize” the use of red flag laws, Harris said.</p><p>It will provide training and technical assistance, including educational opportunities and workshops “for a wide variety of stakeholders”. <br>But the vice-president also acknowledged that red flag laws, which facilitate the temporary removal of firearms from a person a court believes capable of harming themselves or others, are not universally popular.</p><p>👉Only 21 states have implemented red flag laws, and the White House said that only six of those states had taken advantage of $750m in funding that the Biden administration made available through the 2022 ♦️Bipartisan Safer Communities Act ♦️(BSCA) for crisis-intervention initiatives such as red flag programs and mental health, drug and veteran treatment courts.</p><p>Harris called on the other 29 states to enact red flag laws and urged those that already have them to tap into the BSCA funds to support them.<br> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/23/kamala-harris-red-flag-gun-control-laws?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/us-news/2024/m</span><span class="invisible">ar/23/kamala-harris-red-flag-gun-control-laws?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other</span></a></p>
Spocko<p>David Hogg talking to Joy Reid on May 27, 2022 about the use and effectiveness of <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/RedFlag" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RedFlag</span></a> laws. <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/ERPO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ERPO</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/ExtremeRiskProtectionOrders" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ExtremeRiskProtectionOrders</span></a><br>so let's bring up <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/RedFlag" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RedFlag</span></a> laws.</p><p> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://counter.social/@joyannreid" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>joyannreid</span></a></span> on @JoyAnnReid. NOTE the phrase he uses. He says, "through a court order with a right to due process" guns can be removed from people who are a risk to themselves or others.<br>They have been used thousanda of times. We need to tell these stories, becauae you don't hear about the gun that doesn't fire to kill someone.</p>
Kelly Roskam (she/her)<p>The court concludes that ERPOs satisfy due process. <a href="https://esq.social/tags/ERPO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ERPO</span></a> <a href="https://esq.social/tags/gunviolence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gunviolence</span></a></p>
Kelly Roskam (she/her)<p>New case re <a href="https://esq.social/tags/ERPO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ERPO</span></a> from New York disagreeing with G.W. v. C.N. which found <a href="https://esq.social/tags/ERPO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ERPO</span></a> unconstitutionally deprived due process because unlike the Mental Hygiene Law § 9.39 <a href="https://esq.social/tags/ERPO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ERPO</span></a> does not require a determination by a doctor. <a href="https://law.justia.com/cases/new-york/other-courts/2023/2023-ny-slip-op-23099.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">law.justia.com/cases/new-york/</span><span class="invisible">other-courts/2023/2023-ny-slip-op-23099.html</span></a></p>