A5400

Establishes High-Risk Domestic Violence Response Program and requires training for law enforcement officers; appropriates $2 million.

The bill establishes the High-Risk Domestic Violence Response Program within the Department of Law and Public Safety. It creates rapid-response teams in each county to provide a coordinated response by law enforcement and social services professionals to incidents of domestic violence involving a victim at elevated risk of serious bodily injury or death. The county prosecutor's office in each county is to designate a high-risk domestic violence rapid-response team coordinator to coordinate with the Attorney General to develop procedures for implementing the program.