Effective August 24, 2019, the New York State Civil Practice Law and Rules will permit applications for Extreme Risk Protection Orders (ERPOs), which are designed to take guns away from any individual who is found to be “likely to engage in conduct that would result in serious harm to himself, herself or others.” Among others, police officers, school administrators, and district attorneys will all be proper applicants for ERPOs. Please see the attached memorandum, generally describing ERPOs and applications for them.
The District Attorney’s Office will be hosting a training on ERPOs. The training will take place on August 20, 2019, at 9:00 a.m. in the auditorium at the Orange County Emergency Services Center, 22 Wells Farm Road in Goshen. All of you and your officers and staffs are invited to attend.
Anyone interested in attending, please email Lacey Arteta, Confidential Secretary to the District Attorney, at [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
Note: Registrations will not be accepted on this website. To register, you must email Lacey Arteta at the email address above.
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The principle purpose of the Police Chiefs’ Association of Orange County is to provide a forum to work in cooperation with other local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies, community agencies, groups, or other government departments to promote confidence, understanding, trust, competence and professionalism to achieve our police objectives.
Central to our purpose are the values that guide our work and decisions that help us to contribute to the quality of life in our communities. Our values are characteristic or qualities of worth; they are not negotiable. Although we may need to balance them, we will never ignore them for the sake of expediency of personal preference. They are the foundation upon which our policies, goals, objectives and police services are built.