We empower survivors to understand their legal rights and options, and we provide free legal services to help enforce and protect those rights, with a particular focus on restraining orders, family law, and crime victim representation.
Our Mission
The Cooperative Restraining Order Clinic (CROC) is a San Francisco-based legal services agency that upholds the legal rights and dignity of sexual assault, domestic violence, and stalking survivors. Committed to empowerment, CROC works to protect the rights and safety of survivors and their children through effective legal assistance, institutional training, and policy advocacy.
CROC helps survivors of intimate partner violence navigate the court process to obtain a restraining order. Learn more.
CROC represents sexual assault and stalking survivors in civil restraining order proceedings when the victim has not had a relationship with the perpetrator. Learn more
CROC empowers survivors of sexual assault, domestic violence, and stalking to make informed decisions about their rights as crime victims and represents them in asserting and enforcing those rights before, during, and after a criminal investigation or trial. Learn more.
CROC provides survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, and stalking with free, holistic, and comprehensive services that are trauma-informed and compassionate. By honoring the dignity of all clients, CROC has empowered thousands of survivors to claim their legal rights for protection under the law.
Committed to mobilizing change throughout the community, CROC provides expert training and technical assistance to promote survivor-centered practices. To create sustainable safety for survivors, CROC also participates in crucial policy work.
CROC’s trainings and technical assistance help create sustainable safety for survivors by helping other stakeholders provide better, more trauma-informed care.
Our volunteers are a diverse group of individuals connected by a desire to help survivors and promote justice.
CROC relies on individual donations to continue providing critical services for survivors.
