Greene County receives grant to combat domestic abuse

After the recent U. S. Supreme Court decision that said police officers cannot be held accountable for violence that takes place as a result of non-enforcement of protection orders, some good news has come to southwest Missouri on the domestic abuse front.
Seventh District Congressman Roy Blunt announced today that the U. S. Department of Justice's Office on violence Against Women has approved a two-year $251,536 grant for the Greene County Prosecutor's office to combat domestic violence.
According to the news release, the grant is "intended to strengthen enforcement of protection orders and encourage the treatment of domestic violence as a serious violation of criminal law."