CAMPUS AND AREA
University Daily Kansan, October 5, 1984 Page 10
Program to hasten relief from abuse
By SHAWN ADAY Staff Reporter
A woman who wants to escape the threats or abuse of her husband soon may not have to flee her home.
When the details of a new Douglas County program have been resolved, a victim of domestic violence — 95 percent of whom are women, will receive immediate help, quickly a court order that temporarily bars the spouse from the home.
A county task force with representatives from the district and municipal courts, law enforcement and social service organizations has been developing the program since its basic provisions were authorized in 1967 under Abuse Act, which was passed by the Legislature last year.
Another phase of the program includes therapy groups at the University of Kansas Psychology Clinic and Bert Nash Community Mental Health Center to help men whose behavior is violent.
A victim of abuse must petition the court to obtain the restraining order.
A PETITION ALSO can be made by a spouse to protect children from physical or sexual abuse. But a petition made against a boyfriend will not remove him from a residence that he owns.
City Prosecutor Mike Glover, who is coordinating the effort to settle legal and technical details, said the program might take a week to 30 days.
Still needed, he said, is an agreement with local lawyers to obtain legal counsel for victims at reduced fees.
"It isn't going to work if these women show up at the hearings without a lawyer and the husband of the greatest lawyer in town. Glover said."
The petition for protection is a civil action, not a criminal one. If granted by a judge, it initiates an emergency restraining order that removes the spouse from the home for at least 72 hours.
SUBSEQUENT COURT ORDERS can extend the ban up to a year, but the victim must first prove in a hearing held within 10 days of the emergency order that she was abused.
Glover said police would carry a standard form that constituted the petition if they decide not to make an arrest when called to a domestic violence situation, they would give evidence of the threat to fill out and sign the petition.
The police will take the signed petition immediately to a judge, who can then grant the restraining order on the cnd, even at home.
Any violation of the order will be a contempt of court. Glover said.
One shortcoming of the system,
Assistant Police Chief Ron Olnill said,
is that violation of a court order is not
a criminal act. The man cannot be
arrested for entering the home until
after the judge finds him in con-
formance.
BUT THE NEW rules will allow most women and their children to remain secure in their homes instead of going to school, shelter or some other refuge.
The terms of the program will promote therapy for the violent spouse for at least a year, if the court order is unheld.
"If he wants to get back into his home, one of the things he will have to do is volunteer for therapy," Glover said.
Glover said,
“This guy is still supporting his wife and kids; he's out there trying to afford a place for himself. There is a lot of pressure on him to come around.”
besides those who will be referred to therapy as a condition for lifting a court order, those convicted on criminal charges will be diverted to therapy as a provision of probation.
Most of the county task-force members said that therapy was a better alternative than jail, where the man would get no help for his problem and could not support his family.
PEOPLE WHO ARE worried about their violent behavior should seek help, said Cathy Stevenson and Marc Schlosberg, graduate students who will supervise the therapy group at the KU Psychology Clinic.
The therapy program is open to anyone who needs help, besides those who have been referred by law enforcement officials. Both married and unmarried people can receive the therapy.
Statistics show that in 1983, 560 domestic disturbances were reported to Lawrence police. Of those, 155 involved force or violence. Olin said.
"Things usually don't resolve themselves," Schlosberg said. "It's a cycle of building tension, an exploitation." But the violence tends to get worse.
Changing violent behavior is not easy. Schlosberg said.
"It's going to take some work and commitment on their part," he said. "Not just come to the meeting and then go home and forget about it. They are going to have to show some progress."
Larry Weaver/KANSAN
Scaffolding worker Steve Leonard, Kansas City, Kan., takes down beams extending outward on the hall also will be removed. Bricks on top of Naismith Hall. Within the next two weeks, the on the older part of the building are being replaced.
State image seen at issue
By United Press International
Carlin clarifies stand with anti-liquor group
TOPEKA - The issue before Kansas' chief anti-liquor lobbyists is to how upgrade the state's image, not whether liquor should be consumed. Gov. John Carlin said he told liquor lobbyists yesterday.
The governor met yesterday with Lonnie Hephner, president of Kansans for Life at Its Best!, and the Rev. Richard Taylor Jr., its chief lobbyist. He said he told the two liquor companies that he agreed to provide a crucial part of a package to improve Kansas' image as a state in which to live and invest.
In a related development, a group promoting liquor by the drink in Kansas filed papers with the secretrate office to corporate as a non-profit organization.
Jerry Shelor, former secretary of the state Human Resources Department, said the group, Kansans for Effective Liquor Control, planned to circulate petitions asking lawmakers to place the issue on the ballot.
AT HIS WEEKLY news conference, Carlin said the meeting he called was not designed to convert Hephner and Taylor to his side on the liquor by the drink issue.
"It was an opportunity for me to explain to Rev. Taylor in a little more background and depth as to why I'm supporting the liquor by the drink issue." "Carlin said. 'Although we're not going to agree, I think we're in a better position now to move forward.'"
Carlin said that Taylor had been an effective lobbyist against liquor issues in the past, but that people's views of social habits had changed since the last statewide liquor-by-the-drink vote in 1970. Taylor now has a "tough fight on his hands," the governor said.
CARLIN SAID JIE told Taylor that
the issues were not liquor consumption or accessibility of liquor in Kansas, but that the perception outsiders had that Kansas was a backward state unwilling to change with the times. That perception hampers the state's ability to attract tourists and investors, he said.
"My point to him and my point to Kanssan... is we want a tough approach to the individual who abuses the privilege, but we're not going to play games any more with the accessibility question." Carlin
"The issue here is not consumption or accessibility," he said. "We're not deciding whether Kansans should drink."
Currently, liquor by the drink is available to Kansans who join a private club for a fee. Usually a waiting period preceded approval of a membership application. The state constitution prohibits open saloons, where individuals can walk in off the street and buy a drink.
SHELOR, EXECUTIVE D1-
RECTOR of the Topeka-based Kansans for Effective Liquor Control, said he was forming a 50-member advisory board to promote the group's cause.
"We'll try to convince the Legislature that people have the right to vote on this issue and in fact want that right," he said. "I think there is a good reception so far on the part of the Legislature."
Among the people chosen for the advisory board will be representatives from the Kansas Chamber of Commerce and Industry, hotels and hotels, labor groups, government officials and community leaders.
Shelor discounted claims that Carlin, now in his sixth year as governor, endorsed liquor by the drink to boost his political career mission has Carlin as a chalenger to Robert. John Dooley, R-Kan in 1986.
"Coming on out this issue has its pluses and its minuses," Shelar said. "I seriously doubt it will propel a political career."
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