---
title: "Screen filings for a protected person's address before service or publication"
url: "https://ailawframework.com/practice/family-violence-and-protection-orders/screen-documents-for-the-protected-person-s-address-and-contact-details/united-states"
type: "task_jurisdiction_version"
site: "AI Law Framework"
id: "A53-E20261018-7-US"
practice_area: "Family Violence & Protection Orders"
tier: "yellow"
lawyer_review: "required"
jurisdictions: ["US"]
last_reviewed: "2026-10-22"
---

# Screen filings for a protected person's address before service or publication

> List every place an address, phone number, school or workplace appears in the draft packet, and whether the instructions say the person uses a substitute address. Redact nothing yourself.

Canonical page: https://ailawframework.com/practice/family-violence-and-protection-orders/screen-documents-for-the-protected-person-s-address-and-contact-details/united-states  
Last reviewed: 2026-10-22

Site index for agents: https://ailawframework.com/llms.txt

## Key facts

| Fact | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Practice area | [Family Violence & Protection Orders](https://ailawframework.com/practice/family-violence-and-protection-orders.md) |
| Human involvement | Yellow: Lawyer and AI draft together |
| How AI is used | List every place an address, phone number, school or workplace appears in the draft packet, and whether the instructions say the person uses a substitute address. Redact nothing yourself. |
| What the lawyer must review | 18 USC section 2265(d)(3) forbids a state, tribe or territory from making publicly available on the internet information about the registration, filing or issuance of a protection order if publication would be likely to reveal the identity or location of the protected person. The California Secretary of State's Safe at Home program provides a substitute mailing address for victims of domestic violence and certain other people, which state, county and city agencies accept in place of a residential address. Family Code section 6345 allows service on the Secretary of State, rather than personal service, when the protected person has met the Government Code section 6205 requirements and a non-protected party seeks to change or end the order. You check every page that will be served or posted. Opinion 512 and Model Rule 1.6: do not put the residential address into a public tool. |
| Written for | United States |
| Applies to | [Screen documents for the protected person’s address and contact details before service or disclosure](https://ailawframework.com/practice/family-violence-and-protection-orders/screen-documents-for-the-protected-person-s-address-and-contact-details.md) |

## Checking plan

- What the AI does: List every place an address, phone number, school or workplace appears in the draft packet, and whether the instructions say the person uses a substitute address. Redact nothing yourself.
- Basis: Checked against the linked sources on 22 October 2026. Confirm the current instrument before reliance.

## Notes

- Safe at Home is a California program. Other states run their own address-confidentiality programs.
- Section 2265(d)(3) is about public internet posting. Service on the other party is a separate step under state law.

## Sources

- [18 USC section 2265 (full faith and credit, including limits on internet publication)](https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2265) (checked 2026-10-22)
- [California Secretary of State: Safe at Home confidential address program](https://www.sos.ca.gov/registries/safe-home) (checked 2026-10-22)
- [California Family Code section 6345 (service through the Secretary of State)](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=FAM&sectionNum=6345.) (checked 2026-10-22)

## Forms and precedents for this task

| Form or precedent | Kind | AI level | Summary |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Family violence restraining order or violence restraining order (WA Magistrates Court information and application): completion guide](https://ailawframework.com/precedents/family-violence-and-protection-orders/form-wa-fvro.md) | Form | Yellow | Link to the Magistrates Court of Western Australia information and application for a family violence restraining order or a violence restraining order.… |
| [Intervention order (CourtSA originating application, Form 1OS and Form 7A or 7B): completion guide](https://ailawframework.com/precedents/family-violence-and-protection-orders/form-sa-intervention.md) | Form | Red | Link to the South Australian intervention order page. A private application is lodged on CourtSA with Form 1OS and a signed and witnessed Form 7A or Form 7B affidavit.… |
| [Family violence order or restraint order (Magistrates Court of Tasmania): completion guide](https://ailawframework.com/precedents/family-violence-and-protection-orders/form-tas-fvo.md) | Form | Yellow | Link to the Magistrates Court of Tasmania page for applicants for a family violence order or a restraint order. File the application and five copies.… |
| [Family violence order (ACT Magistrates Court application): completion guide](https://ailawframework.com/precedents/family-violence-and-protection-orders/form-act-fvo.md) | Form | Yellow | Link to the ACT Magistrates Court forms for family violence, personal protection and workplace protection orders, including the private and confidential form and the notice of address for service.… |
| [Application for a domestic violence order (NT Local Court publication PD 5A): completion guide](https://ailawframework.com/precedents/family-violence-and-protection-orders/form-nt-dvo.md) | Form | Yellow | Link to the Local Court of the Northern Territory publication Application for a Domestic Violence Order, number PD 5A, dated 26 March 2024. The Word file was not opened.… |

Signed-in accounts can read the full text of each one.

*Practice guidance for planning and review. Confirm current primary sources and the requirements of the actual matter. This is general information, not legal advice.*