6.2.3 Penalties for Violation

These injunctions, like all injunctions prohibiting abuse, are entered into the Louisiana Protective Order Registry and are a crime to violate.1  So, although these orders appear to only prohibit behavior that is already criminal, they do create additional criminal penalties for enforcement. In other words, a defendant who violates one of these injunctions could be charged with violation of the order and with any underlying crime committed during the violation.

• 1La. R.S. 14:79.