Short answer. Yes. Section 44 makes VAWC case records confidential and forbids publishing, in any format, a victim's or family member's name, address, workplace, school or other identifying information without consent. Someone who does so is liable to the court's contempt power, and the section also sets a penalty of one year's imprisonment and a fine.
What the law says
Whoever publishes or causes to be published, in any format, the name, address, telephone number, school, business address, employer, or other identifying information of a victim or an immediate family member, without the latter's consent, shall be liable to the contempt power of the court
RA 9262, Section 44 — Confidentiality. Read the full provision →
What Section 44 protects
The section begins by making all records of VAWC cases confidential, including those held at the barangay, and requiring public officers and employees, and public or private clinics and hospitals, to respect the victim's right to privacy. It then targets publication directly: whoever publishes or causes to be published, in any format, the name, address, telephone number, school, business address, employer, or other identifying information of a victim or an immediate family member, without the latter's consent, shall be liable to the contempt power of the court. The words in any format are broad enough to reach an online post.
The information the section covers
The list is specific and practical: name, address, telephone number, school, business address, employer, or other identifying information. Posting a victim's name and workplace online falls squarely within it. The dividing line is consent — publication without the victim's or family member's consent is what the section forbids. And the closing phrase, or other identifying information, keeps the list from being read as exhaustive, so details not spelled out but which nonetheless identify the person can be caught as well.
The consequences
There are two. First, the person who publishes the information is liable to the contempt power of the court, a sanction the court can apply within the case. Second, the section sets a penalty of one year's imprisonment and a fine of not more than five hundred thousand pesos for violating the provision. So an unauthorised disclosure of this kind can draw both the court's contempt sanction and the specified criminal penalty. The two operate on different tracks, and the section provides for them together rather than making one an alternative to the other.
What this means, and next steps
If your identifying information was published without your consent after you filed, preserve the evidence — the post itself, screenshots, links and dates — because that is what establishes the violation. This is a matter to raise with counsel and, where appropriate, with the court handling your case, since the contempt remedy operates within the proceedings. Acting while the material is still accessible helps, because online content can be taken down or altered, and the record of what was posted, and when, is the foundation for any action on it.