Draft Changelog Addendum
For Our Children and Families
Long title: An Act To Strengthen Maine Family Court Accountability and Protect Parent-Child Relationships

rev08a - Long-Title Clarification and Public-Review Alignment
Status: Public Review - Title Clarification / Not an Official Ballot Measure
- Updates the long title to: An Act To Strengthen Maine Family Court Accountability and Protect Parent-Child Relationships.
- Preserves the short/common title: For Our Children and Families.
- Preserves the rev08 early implementation review sections, including Sec. 17-A, Sec. 17-B, and Sec. 17-C.
- Carries forward the record-supported public accountability notice.
- Does not remove any existing rev07E section or subsection and does not change the substance of the rev08a statutory text beyond the approved long-title and version-label clarification.

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Draft Changelog Addendum
For Our Children and Families

rev08 - Record-Supported Public Accountability Notice
Status: Public Review - Use Standard / Not an Official Ballot Measure
- Adds a record-supported public accountability notice to the rev08 public-review lane.
- Clarifies that public officials, court personnel, agency personnel, and publicly compensated actors may be identified by name and title when their actions appear in court records, docket entries, official correspondence, public filings, or other record-supported materials.
- Requires disputed facts to be identified as disputed.
- Requires filed documents, orders, docket events, and official communications to be described by date, role, and record source.
- Reaffirms that the purpose is accuracy, source attribution, public accountability, and institutional reform, not personal attacks.
- Reaffirms the no-private-case-intake boundary for child names, protected addresses, sealed records, confidential exhibits, medical or school records, and emergency requests.

Draft Changelog Addendum
For Our Children and Families

rev08 - Early Implementation Review Public Review Draft
Status: Public Review - Append-Only Draft / Not an Official Ballot Measure
- Converts the rev08 lane from a high-level public-review framework into a full-text public-review draft while preserving all existing rev07E sections and subsections.
- Adds new append-only sections after Sec. 17 and before Sec. 18: Sec. 17-A, Sec. 17-B, and Sec. 17-C.
- Adds mandatory trial court implementation reviews for covered family-matter orders involving minor children, scheduled 30 to 45 days after entry of the order.
- Limits the review to implementation, service, receipt, clarity, safety, access, logistical barriers, and compliance status so the review does not become a rehearing on the merits.
- Requires notice that the review does not stay the order and does not extend appeal deadlines.
- Adds short implementation statements that can identify service problems, compliance barriers, child-safety concerns, clarification needs, interpreter needs, accommodation needs, and whether the matter can be resolved on the papers.
- Adds paper-review, remote-appearance, consolidation, and cancellation authority to reduce unnecessary cost, lost work time, travel burden, attorney fees, and repeated litigation expense.
- Prohibits additional filing fees for the implementation review and carries forward existing fee waivers or indigency determinations.
- Protects low-income and self-represented families by barring new private-expense requirements unless separately authorized by law and supported by written findings.
- Preserves due process by requiring separately noticed enforcement, contempt, fee-shifting, or rights-affecting proceedings before sanctions or major remedies may be imposed.
- Adds explicit safety protections for domestic violence, coercive control, stalking, sexual abuse, child abuse, credible fear, emergency protective allegations, good-faith safety reporting, mandated reporting, protective action, and emergency help-seeking.
- Adds child-attendance limits, interpreter access, disability accommodation, protected-address handling, and safety-procedure language.
- Adds anonymized event-code reporting so the public can measure whether orders are actually being implemented without exposing protected personal information.
- Adds pilot and phased-rollout authority so the Judicial Branch can implement the review model by docket, county, region, order category, or capacity while preserving emergency relief and existing enforcement remedies.

Version status
rev08 is a public-review draft, not an official ballot measure and not legal advice.
rev07E remains the prior publication-grade stable draft unless and until rev08 is separately reviewed, accepted, and marked as the controlling public draft.
No existing rev07E section or subsection is removed by this addendum.