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Governor Gregoire Signs Griego Act

The Griego Act is named after the University of Washington employee who was shot to death by an ex-boyfriend, who then shot and killed himself. If you are unfamiliar with The Griego Act, this is from the sponsors website:

OLYMPIA – On a unanimous vote today, the House of Representatives passed Senate Bill 6357, now known as the Rebecca Jane Griego Act, sponsored by Sen. Jeanne Kohl-Welles, D-Seattle. The bill was written following the tragic murder of Rebecca Griego, a University of Washington employee that was killed by an ex-boyfriend whom she had previously attempted to serve with a protection order.

Before today’s vote, Rebecca Griego’s mother and sister, Diane Perry and Rachel Griego, testified in the House Judiciary Committee on Feb. 20, and spoke of the difficulties Rebecca had in serving the protection order that could have helped save her life. Currently, protection orders must be served on the abuser in person, and there are no clearly defined limits to how many times a victim must return to court if the authorities are not able to locate and serve the abuser. Under Kohl-Welles’ bill, courts may not require a domestic violence victim to make more than two attempts at serving a protection order in person.

“With this unanimous vote in the House, the Rebecca Griego act is one step closer to becoming law,” said Kohl-Welles. “This legislation will provide uniformity across the state in making it easier for victims to serve process by mail or by publication when an abuser has successfully avoided being served in person.”

This act makes it easier to serve restraining orders in domestic abuse cases. What good it would have done for Rebecca Griego I haven’t a clue. She got a restraining order against this creep, which he ignored and killed her.

Unless a restraining order is printed on Kevlar it’s worthless.

If I had my choice between a piece of paper and a good 1911 shooting 230 gn hollow points over 1,000 FPS, I’m going to take the pistol. Of course the state has decided, in their infinite wisdom to ban the possession of the very thing which could have saved her life. Several students testified at the hearing in favor of allowing permit holders to CCW on campus, but they were ignored. I’m not surprised.

I predict more of the same in the future unless the government comes to it’s senses and eliminates the victim rich shooting zones otherwise known as “Gun Free Zones.”

I’m not holding my breath.

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