§ 527.10.Prohibition From Obtaining Addresses Or Locations of Protected Persons

A restraining order under §§ 527.6, 527.8, or 527.85 stops a restrained person from contacting or approaching the protected person. Section 527.10 closes a related gap: it stops that same person from hunting down where the protected person lives or can be found. Once a court issues one of those covered orders, it must also, as part of that order, prohibit the restrained party from taking any action to obtain the protected person's address or location — through public records requests, private investigators, process servers, or any other means — unless the court finds good cause not to include that prohibition.

This protection is automatic rather than something the protected person has to separately request or argue for. The default runs in the protected person's favor, and it falls to the court, not the petitioner, to identify a reason to withhold it if one exists in a given case — something that might come up, for example, where the restrained party has a legitimate, unrelated need for the address in a separate legal proceeding. Subdivision (b) directs the Judicial Council to develop the forms needed to carry the section out, so the address-protection order fits into the same paperwork courts already use for civil harassment, workplace-violence, and school-violence petitions.