Advocates for Good Podcast: Partners for Women and Justice with Sheri Hecht Leonard

Partners Trustee, Sheri Hecht Leonard, talks about Partners on the Advocates for Good podcast....

Partners’ Policy Counsel, Trish Perlmutter, talks about domestic violence and the COVID-19 pandemic on the Help Me 2 Understand podcast....

Partners and Seton Hall Law School Center for Social Justice with assistance from McCarter & English, LLP, have released a report that examines the possible causes for the heightened prevalence and severity of domestic violence during the COVID-19 pandemic as well as the responses of state and social service agencies....

Partners Policy Counsel, Trish Perlmutter, wrote this opinion piece that discusses the New Jersey prison release bill pending in the State Assembly. The bill is necessary to protect inmates from COVID-19, but the bill in its current form fails to adequately protect domestic violence victims.  Neither a prison sentence nor a prison release should threaten the health and safety of any resident of the Garden State....

Partners Policy Counsel, Trish Perlmutter, is featured in this article which discusses challenges that victims faced in obtaining temporary restraining orders during COVID-19 and the changes made by the courts....

On July 20, the New Jersey Supreme Court held that defendants who violate pretrial release conditions cannot be charged with criminal contempt. State v. Antoine McCray; State v. Sahaile Gabourel (2020). However, the Court accepted the argument advanced by Partners, as a friend of the court, that no-contact orders must be fully enforceable in order to protect victims of domestic violence. This means that the Court carved out an exception to the holding allowing prosecutors to charge defendants with contempt if they violate no-contact orders. This decision will help deter violations of no-contact orders and protect victims of domestic violence....

Partners joined the ACLU of New Jersey and 22 other diverse organizations in filing a brief in support of the Attorney General’s directives requiring the state to release information about police officer misconduct and suspensions....

Listen to Partners Policy counsel, Trish Perlmutter, on WNYC Radio! Trish was interviewed by WNYC's Nancy Solomon for a story titled "NJ Courts COVID Response Causes Problems for Domestic Violence Victims." She spoke about the urgent need to expand access to TROs through the Family Court and the challenges to victims of domestic violence in participating in Zoom Final Restraining Order trials....

Partners comments on New Jersey criminal justice reform. Check out the article featured on Insider NJ. More specifically, "Partners is calling on the Attorney General to convene a Working Group or Task Force on Domestic Violence risk to identify and develop effective strategies for a more risk-informed coordinated community response to domestic violence."...

This Op-Ed piece written by former Executive Director, Jane Hanson; Policy Counsel, Trish Perlmutter; and by the Executive Director of the New Jersey Coalition to End Domestic Violence, Pamela Jacobs, discusses the need for a task force on the criminal justice response to domestic violence....