Access to Civil Protection Orders for Victims of Human Trafficking: State-By-State CPO Tables (December 31, 2024) [pdf]
This document collects and tracks the text of state protection order statutes in all 56 state and U.S. jurisdictions reporting each type of civil protection order available in each state, what forms of abuse and/or crime each protects against, and who is eligible to receive each type of civil protection order. The chart then analyses for each state the extent to which and under what circumstances an adult or child victim of human trafficking (labor or sex) would be eligible to obtain a civil protection orders against their traffickers. The goal of this project is to help state court judges, attorneys, victim advocates, and other professionals working with victims of human trafficking be better able to help victims access this civil protection orders which are an important victim controlled and victim centered form of civil and family court protection.