HB762

Granite Staters deserve to know the truth. Please support this legislation.

I SUPPORT THIS BILL FOR THE SAFETY OF STALKING AND DV VICTIMS

I strongly support the appropriation of $30,000 to fund a manual review of domestic violence and stalking cases. The victims of such violence deserve our full support. Thank you, John Walsh New London

Please we really need this. I had a protective order against a domestic abuser that was granted out of Concord District Court in 2018, he immediately violated it and he was charged by Allenstown. He then just refused to go to court for six years, he would be given PR bail that he would violate, he would get bail jumping charges that he wouldn’t go to court for, he was arrested for felon in possession of a weapon, he was arrested for possession of drugs, then he would get PR bail and new bail jumping charges for those too. The only reason this case even concluded was because I was in contact with the prosecutor to find out what was happening when she claimed she didn’t know how to get in touch with me because I didn’t have the same phone number I had back in 2019. My email address has been the same for 20 years and they have that. I didn’t want a plea agreement if there wasn’t going to be a no contact order as part of the sentence, she ignored that, then she claimed I didn’t need it because he had hadn’t contacted me in six years. He hadn’t contacted me in six years because he had a constant warrant out for his arrest for failing to go to court for six years. Then she claimed that if he contacted me that would violate his two years of good behavior, but that’s not true because he doesn’t have a no contact order, so approaching me isn’t bad behavior legally. I’m one of the lucky ones he hasn’t done violence to me in these past 6 years. If my case was mishandled I can only imagine many others were.

This is a much needed resource for the residents of NH. Too many cases go unsolved, or unchecked and it puts your constituents in danger.