A Movement for Change.
Protection Shouldn't Have to Wait.
The Statutory Blind Spot
Currently under CGS § 46b-38c, the statute requires a strict triple-layer threshold:
1. The Offender Assessment:
The Family Violence Intervention must formally complete a comprehensive review to classify the individual as highrisk .
2. The Judicial Finding:
A judge must determine that physical monitoring is actively necessary, a standard rarely applied to initial, lower-level misdemeanor charges.
3. The Escalation Requirement:
In practice, the system treats a paper protection order as the mandatory first line of defense, meaning GPS tracking is rarely implemented until the offender escalates their behavior by committing a secondary criminal offense and violating that existing order.
This creates a lethal systemic bottleneck. An abuser can exhibit every terrifying, high-risk marker of an impending homicide, yet standard judicial practice heavily defaults to a baseline 'paper protection order' during the most volatile phase of a separation. This operational pattern effectively shelves active technological intervention, leaving counselor risk warnings unaddressed until a secondary crime has already occurred.