UC Davis study details use of extreme risk protection orders in California over first four years

In the first four years since California established extreme risk protection order (ERPO) policies, use of the relatively new violence prevention tool has increased substantially.

ERPOs help fill a gap in violence prevention policy by allowing individuals to intervene when someone who is not prohibited from owning a firearm poses an immediate risk of violence to themselves or others. ERPOs are a tool for targeted violence prevention when other risk-reduction interventions –  such as arrest on probable cause, domestic violence and other protective orders, and involuntary mental health hold – are not appropriate or have failed.