Held on August 23, 2024 in collaboration with our training and technical assistance partners – the National Judicial College (NJC). The Violence Against Women Act requires states, tribes and territories to provide full faith and credit for each other’s protection orders on domestic violence and child welfare. Such orders may relate to criminal cases connected to the Tribe or its members. States and tribes have pursued a variety of paths to ensure full faith and credit enforcement. Some states have enacted statutes explicitly recognizing tribal judge protection orders. In other states, the judicial branch or the executive branch have established procedures for enforcement of tribal judge orders. This webinar explored those options for tribal judges to ensure full faith and credit and offered best practices for tribal court judges in issuing protective orders. The webinar was done via zoom. The webinar was presented by Hon. Kelly Stoner (Cherokee),Victim Advocacy Legal Specialist, TLPI, Hon. Michelle Demmert (Tlingit), Professor of Law, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, and Merri Lopez-Keifer (San Luis Rey Band of Mission Indians), Director of the Office of Native American Affairs Office of the Attorney General, California Department of Justice.
Learning Objectives:
Explain federal law’s requirement for full faith and credit enforcement of tribal protection orders to non-tribal law enforcement officers.
Describe efforts to develop state and local law enforcement’s full faith and credit enforcement of tribal court protection orders.
Work with state executive and judicial branch leaders to ensure their full faith and credit enforcement of tribal court protection orders.
Address the technical requirements of the California statute providing full faith and credit enforcement of tribal court protection orders.
Explain federal law’s requirement for full faith and credit enforcement of tribal protection orders to non-tribal law enforcement officers.
Describe efforts to develop state and local law enforcement’s full faith and credit enforcement of tribal court protection orders.
Work with state executive and judicial branch leaders to ensure their full faith and credit enforcement of tribal court protection orders.
Address the technical requirements of the California statute providing full faith and credit enforcement of tribal court protection orders.
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