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Abstract: 

A number of states have enacted new legislation for domestic violence survivors that is effective in 2025. This article highlights new laws from California, New York, Ohio, New Jersey, and Massachusetts. Some of these laws expand the definitional scope of domestic violence laws, protect victims from technology-assisted abuse (including remote-vehicle technology), improve enforcement of restraining orders, expand workplace protections for victims, raise penalties for offenders, and update laws to include coercive control and revenge porn. These laws significantly enhance protection for survivors and improve accountability of abusers.

Keywords: Victim-of-Violence Leave Law (Cal. AB 2499) ; Penalties for Felony Domestic Violence Offenders (OH. House Bill 111); Surveillance Technology (NY (S9174B); Animal Abuse (NJ A 1475); Coercive Control and Technology-Assisted Sexual Abuse and Harassment

Affiliations:  1: Domestic Violence Report.