Protective and Restraining Order Records (International)

Detects domestic abuse protective, restraining and barring orders, police-issued protection notices, and applications for them, when the document names the parties. Covers the generic English-language order names used across jurisdictions plus United States (order of protection, protection from abuse, domestic violence restraining order, temporary restraining order, injunction for protection), United Kingdom (non-molestation order, occupation order, DVPN/DVPO, domestic abuse protection notice/order, non-harassment order), Ireland (barring, interim barring and emergency barring orders; bare "safety order" is excluded as too generic), Canada (emergency protection order, peace bond) and New Zealand (Police Safety Order) instruments. Australian state and territory DFV orders are covered in more depth by au-dfv-protection-order; the slug is retained from the earlier topic-phrase classifier.

Type: regex
Engine: boost_regex
Confidence: medium
Confidence justification: Medium: order names appear widely in legal information, court guidance and statistics, and some (occupation order, safety order, protection order) have non-DFV meanings. Enforce tiers therefore require a populated party field; 85 adds an order condition independent of the order name. 85/75 are heuristic evidence tiers, not measured accuracy.
Detection quality: Topic false positive
Jurisdictions: global, us, gb, ie, ca, nz, au
Regulations: GDPR, UK GDPR, Data Protection Act 2018 (UK), Family Law Act 1996 (UK), Domestic Abuse Act 2021 (UK), Violence Against Women Act (US), Domestic Violence Act 2018 (Ireland), Family Violence Act 2018 (NZ), Privacy Act 2020 (NZ), PIPEDA, Privacy Act 1988 (Cth)
Frameworks: ISO 27001
Data categories: legal, law-enforcement, pii
Scope: narrow
Risk rating: 8
Platform compatibility: Purview: Compatible, GCP DLP: Compatible, Macie: Unsupported, Zscaler: Compatible, Palo Alto: Degraded, Netskope: Unsupported

Pattern

(?i)\b(?:(?:temporary\s+|emergency\s+|interim\s+|ex\s+parte\s+|final\s+)?(?:protective|protection|restraining)\s+orders?|orders?\s+(?:of|for)\s+protection|protection\s+from\s+abuse\s+orders?|domestic\s+violence\s+(?:restraining|protection|protective)\s+orders?|injunction\s+for\s+protection|non-molestation\s+orders?|occupation\s+orders?|domestic\s+(?:violence|abuse)\s+protection\s+(?:notices?|orders?)|non-harassment\s+orders?|(?:interim\s+|emergency\s+)?barring\s+orders?|peace\s+bonds?|police\s+safety\s+orders?)\b|\b(?:DVPN|DVPO|DAPN|DAPO)s?\b

Corroborative evidence keywords

petitioner, respondent, protected person, stay away, no contact, surrender firearms, non-molestation, barring order

Proximity: 300 characters

Should match

Temporary Restraining Order Person asking for protection: Avery Teston Person to be restrained: Jordan Teston The restrained person must not harass, contact or follow the protected person and must stay at least 100 yards away from the protected person's home. — US domestic violence temporary restraining order with parties and stay-away
Non-Molestation Order (Family Law Act 1996, s42). Applicant: Morgan Teston. Respondent: Riley Teston. The respondent must not use or threaten violence against the applicant and must not go within 100 metres of the applicant's home. — England and Wales non-molestation order
DVPN issued 12/06/2026. Victim: Sam Teston Perpetrator: Casey Teston The perpetrator must not contact the victim and must not enter the premises for 48 hours. — UK Domestic Violence Protection Notice (acronym primary)
Interim Barring Order - District Court Applicant: Jamie Teston Respondent: Alex Teston The respondent shall not enter the family home and shall not watch or be in the vicinity of the applicant's residence. — Irish interim barring order
Petition for Protection from Abuse Order. Plaintiff: Taylor Teston. Defendant: Drew Teston. Defendant is prohibited from contacting the plaintiff and shall relinquish all firearms. — US Protection From Abuse petition

Should not match

A non-molestation order is an injunction that protects an applicant from harassment. Breaching a non-molestation order is a criminal offence punishable by up to five years in prison. — Legal information explainer
Petition for Order of Protection Petitioner: ____________ Respondent: ____________ Check the protections requested: [ ] Stay away [ ] No contact — Blank petition form
Courts in England and Wales issued 32,400 non-molestation orders and 4,100 occupation orders in 2025. — Aggregate statistics
Workplace health and safety order issued to Acme Pty Ltd. Respondent: Harbour Logistics. Occupation of the site must cease until scaffolding is certified. — Non-DFV regulatory safety notice

Known false positives

Legal information, court guides and training material describing orders. Mitigation: Enforce tiers require a populated party field; explainers use party labels as nouns, not as filled fields.
Blank court forms and petitions. Mitigation: Blank lines, square-bracket and angle-bracket placeholders, and n/a/tbc values are rejected; template text is excluded.
Non-DFV uses of occupation, safety and protection orders (planning, workplace safety, child protection) that name parties. Mitigation: Child protection and safety orders with named people are still sensitive; commercial respondents rarely co-occur with personal stay-away conditions, which the 85 tier requires.
Overlap with au-dfv-protection-order on Australian documents that use generic order names. Mitigation: Both carry equivalent sensitivity; deploy au-dfv-protection-order for Australian tenants and keep this classifier for international coverage.