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Adopt and present a resolution recognizing April 7-13, 2019 as National Crime Victims' Rights Week in Solano County (Supervisor Vasquez)
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DEPARTMENTAL RECOMMENDATION:
The District Attorney recommends that the Board of Supervisors adopt and present a resolution recognizing April 7-13, 2019 as National Crime Victims' Rights Week in Solano County.
SUMMARY/DISCUSSION:
For over three decades, National Crime Victims' Rights Week has successfully promoted awareness for victims' rights and services and honored countless crime victims and survivors.
This year's theme - Honoring Our Past, Creating Hope for the Future, calls on us to expand the vision that inspired the movement and celebrate the progress achieved to date. It captures the spirit and resolve needed to realize our common goal of breaking the cycle of violence and reaching each victim in need of hope and help, one victim at a time.
Although there is much to celebrate within the victim rights movement, we face multiple, complex challenges in reaching out to all victims. New types of crime have emerged and proliferated as a result of changes brought about by technology, globalization, and demographics in our society. Meanwhile, long-standing types of victimization endure, demanding a renewed commitment to action.
Solano County's Crime Victim/Witness Assistance Unit in the District Attorney's Office works with victims and witnesses of homicide, robbery, adult and child sexual assault, domestic violence, stalking, elder abuse, child molestation and physical abuse. This unit worked with 2,236 new victims of crime in the calendar year 2018 alone, and with the growing demand, has allocated nine crime victim assistant positions to work with victims and witnesses throughout Solano County. The unit is supported by grant funding through the California Office of Emergency Services.
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