Civil Injunction for Protection Project

The Florida laws against domestic, dating and sexual violence and stalking may protect you from being hurt or harassed.

The Shelter has initiated a new Injunction for Protection Project staffed with a Florida-licensed lawyer available to speak with you for free about how these laws may protect you.

You conversations with our attorney and/or certified domestic violence center staff will be confidential and private.

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For your Information

For purposes of an injunction, Florida law protects victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual violence and stalking and defines them as:

  • Domestic violence includes any assault, battery, sexual assault, sexual battery, stalking, kidnapping or any other crime resulting in a physical injury caused by a spouse, former spouse, person related by blood or marriage, person who you are living together as a family or have lived with as a family, or person with whom you have a child in common.
  • Dating violence is violence between individuals who have or have had a continuing and significant relationship of romantic or intimate nature. The relationships must have existed within the past six months.
  • Sexual violence includes any one incident of sexual battery, a lewd or lascivious act committed on or in the presence of a person under 16 years of age, luring or enticing a child, or any other forcible felony where a sexual act is committed or attempted.

Advocacy includes:

  • A full-time Advocate who provides information and advocacy for survivors with immigration needs.
  • A full-time Advocate who works in the State Attorney’s Office three days per week assisting domestic violence crime victims with all the realms of domestic violence advocacy
  • A full-time Court Advocate who attends weekly domestic violence court to provide support and advocacy to survivors requesting injunctions for protections
  • A full-time InVEST (Intimate Violence Enhanced Services Team) Advocate who works in a unique collaboration with the Collier County Sheriff’s Office, Naples Police Department, Marco Police Department, State Attorney’s Office, and the Department of Children & Families and provides intensive service management and assistance to individuals identified to be in potentially lethal situations
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