NAMI Lunch and Learn: Extreme Risk Protection Orders
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  • January 15th, 2026
    1pm - 2pm

    Join NAMI NYS’s Lunch and Learn series—a monthly webinar designed to help advocates better understand key mental health policy issues.

    This months session will feature the Unified Court System discussion on Extreme Risk Protection Orders (ERPO). A ERPO is a court order issued when a person may be dangerous to themselves or others. An ERPO prohibits a person from purchasing or possessing guns and requires the person to surrender any guns they already own or possess. An ERPO can also direct the police to search a person, premises or a vehicle for guns and remove them. An ERPO case may be started by a law enforcement agency, police officer, district attorney, school official, health care professional, or member of the person’s family or household. It is a civil case. ERPO cases have no criminal charges or penalties.

    The petitioner is the person filing the ERPO application with the court. The respondent is the person you are asking the court to issue an ERPO against. The petitioner can be a law enforcement agency, police officer, district attorney, school official, health care professional, or member of the respondent’s family or household.

    This month's speaker is Lisa C. Smith is Chief Counsel for Family and Gender Violence at the New York State Office of Court Administration, Office of Justice Initiatives.  Ms. Smith works on legal, policy, training, and operational issues in the areas of gender based and intimate partner violence.  In this capacity, she oversees the 39 Domestic Violence Courts and 43 Integrated Domestic Violence Courts throughout New York State.  Lisa was a Professor at Brooklyn Law School where she was the Director of Criminal and Judicial Externships and the Prosecutors Clinic in which she supervised students prosecuting cases, often in the domestic violence parts in the court system.  She was formerly the Executive Assistant for Domestic Violence and Child Abuse in the Office of the Kings County District Attorney.    Lisa currently serves as a liaison to the American Bar Association Commission on Domestic and Sexual Violence, the New York State OPDV Advisory Board and has worked on numerous justice system initiatives concerning gender-based violence. 

    An email link will be sent to all registered participants one week in advance.
     

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