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  • NOTICE:

    The Johnson County District Court is not currently able to accept protection order petitions online. If you need to request a protection order petition in Johnson County, please visit or contact the court directly:

    Johnson County Courthouse
    1150 W. Santa Fe St.
    Olathe, KS 66061
    Phone: (913) 715-3300
    https://www.jocogov.org/contact-us/all-locations/county-courthouse

  • NOTICE:

     This website is only for filing a NEW protection order petition. You cannot apply to extend a current protection order through this website. If you want to extend an existing protection order, please visit the resources page to find your local district court or a domestic violence advocate.

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    Answer a few questions to see if you are eligible to file for a protection order.

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    You have to be 18 years of age or older to file for a Protection Order.

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    The court wants to know if there are children involved.

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    Certain protection orders are only available if you have a specific relationship.

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    Certain protection orders are only available if you have a specific relationship.

    “Dating” means any kind of romantic relationship.

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    Certain protection orders are only available if the child(ren) have a specific relationship.

    “Dating” means any kind of romantic relationship.

  • ATTENTION: we detected conflicting answers. Your default answer now is "other".

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    “Legal custodian” means you have the right to make decisions about the minor child(ren)’s upbringing.
    “Guardian” means you have the legal authority and duty to care for the minor child(ren).

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    Only 16 to 18-year-olds may give consent. And only if their partner is less than 10 years older than they are.

    “Sexual contact” means intentional touching, including through the clothing of the genitalia, anus, groin, breast, inner thigh, or buttocks of any person

    “Consent” means a person gave permission for a specific sexual act at the time of its occurrence. Consent can be withdrawn at any time.

    “Incapable of consent” includes situations where a person is unconscious, asleep, intoxicated, physically helpless, under the age of 16, or unable to communicate.

  • Based on your answers, you will be filing a PETITION FOR PROTECTION FROM ABUSE. If you want to file for a PETITION FOR PROTECTION FROM STALKING, SEXUAL ASSAULT, OR HUMAN TRAFFICKING instead, please check the box labeled “None” above and you will be asked some additional questions.

  • ATTENTION: Choosing “none” will not result in you being denied the ability to file for a protection order. You will be asked to answer additional questions that will help us determine what type of protection order you need. If you want to file a petition for protection from stalking, sexual assault, or human trafficking, choose ‘none’ above.

  • ATTENTION: we detected conflicting answers. Your default answer now is "none".

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    “Sexual contact” means intentional touching, including through the clothing of the genitalia, anus, groin, breast, inner thigh, or buttocks of any person

    “Consent” means a person gave permission for the specific sexual act at the time of its occurrence. Consent can be withdrawn at any time.

    Consent does not exist when the person you are seeking protection from  made you have sex with him/her or perform sexual acts on him/her when you didn't want to.

    “Incapable of consent” includes situations where a person is unconscious, asleep, intoxicated, physically helpless, under the age of 16, or unable to communicate.

  • Based on your answers, you will be filing a PETITION FOR PROTECTION FROM ABUSE. If you want to file for a PETITION FOR PROTECTION FROM STALKING, SEXUAL ASSAULT, OR HUMAN TRAFFICKING instead, please check the box labeled “None” above and you will be asked some additional questions.

  • ATTENTION: Choosing “none” will not result in you being denied the ability to file for a protection order. You will be asked to answer additional questions that will help us determine what type of protection order you need. If you want to file a petition for protection from stalking, sexual assault, or human trafficking, choose ‘none’ above.

  • ATTENTION: we detected conflicting answers. Your default answer now is "none".

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    “Stalking” is intentional harassment that places someone in fear for their safety. Harassment includes behavior that seriously alarms, annoys, torments or terrorizes a person.

    Stalking may occur through harassing emails, texts, phone calls, letters, acts of vandalism, threats communicated through third parties, or other behaviors. The use of a drone near your house, occupied car, or other private area, to torment or terrorize you also qualifies as stalking.

    At least two incidents are necessary to qualify for a protection order.

  • ATTENTION: Choosing “No” will not result in you being denied the ability to file for a protection order. You will be asked to answer additional questions that will help us determine what type of protection order you need.

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    “Sexual assault” is an unwanted sexual act or an attempted sexual act against another by force, threat of force, duress, or when the person is incapable of giving consent.

    “Consent” means a person gave permission for the specific sexual act at the time of its occurrence. Consent can be withdrawn at any time.

    “Incapable of consent” includes situations where a person is unconscious, asleep, intoxicated, physically helpless, under the age of 16, or unable to communicate.

  • ATTENTION: Choosing “No” will not result in you being denied the ability to file for a protection order. You will be asked to answer additional questions that will help us determine what type of protection order you need.

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    “Human trafficking” means the person you are seeking protection from used force, fraud, or coercion to obtain labor or commercial sex. Commercial sex takes place when anything of value is given or received in exchange for sex.

    Coercion include:

    • causing or threatening physical injury to any person,
    • restraining or threatening to restrain any person,
    • abusing or threatening to abuse the law or legal system,
    • threatening to withhold food, lodging, clothing, or
    • taking or hiding government identification documents

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    For minors, human trafficking occurs if the person you are seeking a protection order from knew the recruited minor would be “used” in involuntary labor or commercial sex. This is true even if there is no force, fraud, threat or coercion.
     

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