Effectiveness of Red-Flag Laws and Other Emergency Protective Orders

April Zeoli: Extreme Risk Protection Orders and Multiple Victim/Mass Shooting Threats in Six States

April Zeoli conducts interdisciplinary research, with a goal of bringing together the fields of public health and criminology and criminal justice. Her main fields of investigation are the prevention of firearm violence, intimate partner violence, and homicide through the use of policy and law. She is one of the nation’s leading experts on policy interventions for firearm use in intimate partner violence and on extreme risk protection orders.

Veronica Pear: Violence Following Extreme Risk Protection Orders: Population- and Individual-Level Findings from California

Veronica Pear is a social epidemiologist and assistant professor at the Violence Prevention Research Program at the University of California at Davis. She studies modifiable upstream causes of firearm violence that can be leveraged to effectuate widespread, enduring reductions in violence-related harms. Her work on California’s gun violence restraining order law has influenced the state and national conversation on this policy.

Jeffrey Swanson: Understanding ERPO Research—Emerging Evidence from Individual, Area, and Population-Level Studies

Jeffrey Swanson is professor in psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Duke University School of Medicine. Swanson led the research group that published the first empirical evaluations of risk-based, temporary firearm removal laws in Indiana and Connecticut, precursors to Extreme Risk Protection Order laws that were later adopted in many states.