It seems to me that the onus is on her, to prove that there are orders extant: she knows that he's a dancer, right? So she should have a copy of the orders with her at any given dance, and be prepared to show them to the authorities (that SHE calls to enforce the orders).
It is in no way incumbent upon organizers, IMO, to enforce restraining orders. That's a matter for law enforcement. Melody Ball Dallas --- Chrissy Fowler <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello fellow organizers, > > A number of years ago, when I was involved in > producing a dance in New Hampshire, we had the > following incident at one of our monthly dances: > > A female dancer asked one of our committee members > to intervene because a man (with whom she had once > been in a relationship) had appeared at the dance. > Both were regular dancers in our region. She > asserted that there was a restraining order out on > this man, and that he was prohibited from being > within a certain number of yards of her at any given > time. She didn't have a copy of the restraining > order, at least not that I remember. The situation > got fairly tense and volatile. No physical > violence, but many heated exchanges. As I recall, > after some requests from the committee member, he > left the dance. > > I was wondering if other dance organizers have had > to deal with that sort of thing -- whether > restraining orders are involved or not. And I > particularly would like to hear what people think > the role and responsibility of dance organizers is > in this sort of situation. > > Thanks, > Chrissy Fowler > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > http://www.belfastflyingshoes.org > home 207-338-0979 cell 603-498-3506 > > _________________________________________________________________ > Its easy to add contacts from Facebook and other > social sites through Windows Live Messenger. Learn > how. > https://www.invite2messenger.net/im/?source=TXT_EML_WLH_LearnHow > _______________________________________________ > Organizers mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.sharedweight.net/mailman/listinfo/organizers >
