Ms. Jo-Ann Greene at the Status of Women Committee

Through the emergency protection orders, if you don't have permission of the applicant, you can seek permission to apply for an emergency protection order on behalf of someone else. The court can grant that permission. In that instance, the daughter of the woman, fearing that something was wrong when access wasn't granted to see her mother, she could have sought that permission to seek an emergency protection order that would have possibly helped in that situation to de-escalate—