It's her call...but if he's this obsessed with her, the odds are that he already KNOWS where she works, kids go to school, etc. Without such an order, police are left with little to enforce, beyond any actual overt criminal conduct on his part (i.e. until he attacks her). A restraining order in and of itself, however, is only as effective as the level of fear of repurcussion it creates in the subject of the order. If he's hell bent on his actions and doesn't care about legal consequences, that order wouldn't be worth the paper it's printed on. As such, they can't be the solution in and of themselves - they've got to be a PART of an overall safety plan.

