To amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to award grants for providing legal resources for petitioners seeking extreme risk protection orders, and for other purposes.
The Fair Legal Access Grants Act would provide federal grant funding to help people pursue extreme risk protection orders, which are court orders designed to temporarily remove firearms from individuals deemed at serious risk of harming themselves or others. The Attorney General would award up to $50 million per year from 2025 through 2031 to states, local governments, and tribal governments to fund legal representation, interpretation services, and legal resource centers for people seeking these orders. Recipients could use the grants to hire staff in prosecutors' offices and law enforcement agencies, establish multilingual legal resource centers, support nonprofit legal aid organizations, and train judges, police, and court personnel on how extreme risk protection orders differ from domestic violence protection orders. The bill would also prevent federal courts from interfering with state and tribal extreme risk protection order proceedings unless a petitioner filed a false or harassing petition. This legislation aims to ensure that individuals have meaningful access to legal help when seeking these protective orders, particularly those with language barriers.
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