LANCASTER – Named for a woman who was murdered by a former boyfriend who tracked her from Ohio to New Mexico to California, a new state law is aimed at helping domestic-violence victims escape their abusers.
Signed last week by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Assembly Bill 978 – also known as “Peggy’s Law” – makes it misdemeanor for anyone targeted by a domestic-violence restraining order to try to locate the victim by hiring a private investigator, using a friend or relative or any other “third-party means.”
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