Streamlining Safety: Stakeholder Perceptions of DVPO E-Filing Impact, Advantages, and Disadvantages
Open Access
- 17 November 2025
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Feminist Criminology
- Vol. 21 (1) , 30-45
Abstract
Electronic filing (e-filing) addresses logistical and psychological barriers to Domestic Violence Protective Order access, allowing survivors to file from a secure remote location, supported by a domestic violence advocate. We sought to identify stakeholders’ perceptions of the impact, benefits of and barriers to e-filing. We analyzed 46 interviews with clerks (n = 11), advocates (n = 15), sheriffs (n = 10), and judges (n = 10), and found that stakeholders perceived that e-filing streamlined DVPO processes, increased survivor safety, and facilitated connection among stakeholders and between survivors and services. E-filing also increased time burden on advocates, which, without provision of adequate resources, could lead to staff turnover.Keywords
This publication has 11 references indexed in Scilit:
- Saturation in qualitative research: An evolutionary concept analysisInternational Journal of Nursing Studies Advances, 2024
- Disarming Intimate Partner Violence Offenders: An In-Depth Descriptive Analysis of Federal and State Firearm Prohibitor Laws in the United States, 1991–2016Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2022
- COVID 19: A catalyst to automate protection order petitions to support self‐represented litigantsFamily Court Review, 2022
- Social Support and Physical Health: Models, Mechanisms, and Opportunities2018
- An Updated Assessment of Personal Protective Order Statutes in the United States: Have Statutes Become More Progressive in the Past Decade?Violence Against Women, 2017
- Protection Orders Protect Against Assault and InjuryJournal of Interpersonal Violence, 2012
- The Economic Costs of Partner Violence and the Cost-Benefit of Civil Protective OrdersJournal of Interpersonal Violence, 2011
- Protective OrdersTrauma, Violence, & Abuse, 2006
- A Summary of Personal Protection Order Statutes in the United StatesViolence Against Women, 2006
- Factors Associated With Completion of the Restraining Order Process in Female Victims of Partner ViolenceJournal of Interpersonal Violence, 2000