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Jurisdiction: Reporting law enforcement agency.

County: County in which the reporting agency is located.

Population: Population served by the reporting agency, in terms of calls for service. For a university police department, for example, that might mean the university’s population the police department serves directly.

Lethality Screens: Total number of Lethality Screens administered by the reporting agency during the reporting period¸ such as one month (monthly report) or one quarter (quarterly report).

Number of days within the reporting period. For one month that might be 28, 30 or 31 days. Or it may be the number of days in the reporting period in which the reporting agency participated in the LAP; this would be the case for agencies that initiated implementation, for example, in the middle of the reporting period. An agency beginning on June 15th would record 16 days as the “# of days” in the month in which it participated in the LAP.

Screens/Day: Automatic calculation that divides the number of Lethality Screens for the reporting period by the number of days in the reporting period. LAP Statistical  

Screens/Pop: Automatic calculation that divides the number of Lethality Screens for the reporting period by the size of the served population.

High Danger: Number of Lethality Screens where the victim has been assessed as being at “High Danger,” either based on the protocol or on the belief of the officer. Report the number of High Danger assessments based on the protocol and officer’s belief as a combined number. For your own monitoring purposes, you may want to separate the two.

% High Danger: Automatic calculation that divides the number of High Danger Lethality Screens by the total number of Lethality Screens.

Non-High Danger: Number of Lethality Screens where the victim has been assessed as being at “Non-High-Danger.”

% Non-High Danger: Automatic calculation that divides the number of Non-High Danger Lethality Screens by the total number of Lethality Screens.

DNA: “DNA” is the acronym for “Did Not Answer.” DNA means that the victim declined to answer ALL of the questions on the Lethality Screen. This would apply when the officer initially introduces the Lethality Screen to the victim and (s)he says that (s)he doesn’t want to answer the questions, then declines again when the officer encourages her/him a second time to answer. This type of Lethality Screen is counted as an administered Lethality Screen because the officer believed the victim should be assessed.

% DNA: Automatic calculation that divides the number of “DNA” Lethality Screens by the total number of Lethality Screens.

Spoke to LAP-line Worker: Number of High Danger victims who speak by phone to the hotline worker after being encouraged by the officer to do so.

% Spoke to LAP-line Worker: Automatic calculation that divides the number of victims who spoke to the hotline worker by the number of High Danger Lethality Screens

Instructions for Domestic Violence Program or Agency Preparing Report

The below categories represent figures captured by the domestic violence program.

High Danger Officer Calls: The number of calls during the reporting period that hotline workers receive on the hotline from officers reporting a High Danger case.

% High Danger Officer Calls : Automatic calculation that divides the number of High Danger calls received from officers by the number of High Danger Lethality Screens received from those officers’ reporting agency.

Went to Services During Call: The number of (1.) High Danger victims who, (2.) spoke on the phone with the “LAP-line worker” and (3.) engaged in services during the officer’s call reporting the High Danger screen. The screen must indicate the victim spoke to the LAP-Line Advocate to be included for consideration whether they engaged in services at the time of call or after. “Went to Services” means the victim either went into a shelter or engaged in program services through in-take, such as counseling, basic needs support, transportation, or they requested connection to continued support services, including but not limited to civil or criminal legal assistance, case management, etc.; at the time of the call.

Note: Providing immediate safety planning information/recommendations during the initial High Danger call should not be considered “Went to Services” nor “Counseling” when calculating LAP data.

% Went to Services During Call: Automatic calculation that divides the number of High Danger victims who spoke to the LAP line worker and engaged in services at the time of the call by the number of High Danger Lethality Screens.

Went to Service After Call: The number of (1.) High Danger victims who, (2.) spoke on the phone with the “LAP-line worker” but (3.) did not engage in services during the officer’s call to report the High Danger screen. The victim who spoke to the LAP-line advocate instead engaged in services sometime after the call. Engaging in services after the call can include but is not limited to engaging in services after the officer has left, through services offered by the FVVA at a civil or criminal court, or other referrals from another program in which the victim engages in offered services. The screen must indicate the victim spoke to the LAP-Line Advocate to be included for consideration whether they engaged in services at the time of call or after. “Went to Services” means the victim either went into a shelter or engaged in services through in-take, such as counseling, basic needs support, transportation, they requested connection to continued support services, including but not limited to civil or criminal legal assistance, case management, etc.; through the reported period.

Note: Providing immediate safety planning information/recommendations during the initial High Danger call should not be considered “Went to Services” nor “Counseling” when calculating LAP data.

% Went to Services After Call: Automatic calculation that divides the number of High Danger victims who spoke to the LAP line worker and engaged in services after the call by the number of High Danger Lethality Screens, minus the number of victims who engaged in services at the time of the call.