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Adopt a resolution recognizing April 21-27, 2024 as National Crime Victims' Rights Week in Solano County
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DEPARTMENTAL RECOMMENDATION:
The District Attorney recommends that the Board of Supervisors adopt a resolution recognizing April 21-27, 2024 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 - How would you help? Options, services, and hope for crime survivors, underscores the importance of helping crime survivors find their justice by enforcing victims' rights, expanding access to services, and ensuring equity and inclusion for all. Criminal justice and victim service professionals, businesses, healthcare providers, educators, policymakers, houses of worship, and other social and civic groups can work together to ensure that survivors of crime receive the holistic services and support they need.
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 and globalization 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 2,675 new victims of crime in the calendar year 2023, of which 1,206 were domestic violence related. The Unit has allocated nine crime victim assistant positions to work with victims and ...
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