Art. 3607.1.Registry of Temporary Restraining Order, Preliminary Injunction, Or Permanent Injunction

Once a court decides to protect someone from domestic abuse, dating violence, or stalking through an injunction or restraining order, that protection only works if the people enforcing it, primarily law enforcement, know it exists. Article 3607.1 builds the administrative backbone that makes these orders findable and enforceable statewide.

Immediately upon a decision granting protection of this kind, whether a temporary restraining order, a preliminary injunction, or a permanent injunction, the judge has to prepare, sign, and forward a Uniform Abuse Prevention Order to the clerk of court on the day the order issues. This is the first article in the chapter to reference a permanent injunction by name, confirming that the three-tier structure of temporary, preliminary, and permanent relief runs through this registry requirement too.

The clerk's job comes next. Whenever one of these orders is issued, dissolved, or modified, the clerk has to transmit the Uniform Abuse Prevention Order to the Judicial Administrator's Office for entry into the Louisiana Protective Order Registry, and separately send a copy to the chief law enforcement officer of the parish where the protected person lives, both by the end of the next business day after the order is filed. Law enforcement then keeps that copy on file until the court says otherwise.