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The Pennsylvania Coalition to Advance Respect (PCAR), known as the Pennsylvania Coalition Against Rape from 1975 to 2023, is an organization that opposes rape and sexual violence in Pennsylvania and the United States, and advocates for victims of sexual violence. [1] [2] [3] [4]
The Family Violence Prevention and Services Act (FVPSA) is a United States law, first authorized as part of the Child Abuse Amendments of 1984 (PL 98–457), that provides federal funding to help victims of domestic violence and their dependent children by providing shelter and related help, offering violence prevention programs, and improving how service agencies work together in communities.
State Sen. Michael O. Moore, D-Millbury and Rep. Natalie M. Higgins, D-Leominster, discuss their roles in the passage of a bill that extends protections to survivors of domestic violence to ...
Mauree A. Gingrich (born July 10, 1946) is an American politician who served as a Republican member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 101st District. [2] [3] The Lititz Record described her as a champion of "legislation to protect children, the elderly, the physically and mentally handicapped and victims of domestic violence ...
A private Pennsylvania nonprofit will continue funding Bucks County’s longtime, leading domestic violence education and victim assistance agency into next year, but a provider change appears not ...
Victims of Domestic Violence marker, Courthouse Square, Quincy, Florida Domestic violence is a form of violence that occurs within a domestic relationship. Although domestic violence often occurs between partners in the context of an intimate relationship, it may also describe other household violence, such as violence against a child, by a child against a parent or violence between siblings ...
This law was an amendment to the existing felon-in-possession laws and forbade the possession or commercial sale of a firearm by all convicted domestic violence abusers. [3] This amendment banned those convicted of a misdemeanor crime of domestic violence from shipping, transporting, owning, or using guns. [12]
Pennsylvania passed a hate crime law in 2002 that covered LGBTQ people, [22] but the Pennsylvania Supreme Court struck it down in 2008 on a technicality: legislators inserted the language into an unrelated bill on agricultural terrorism, changing that bill's purpose during the legislative process, which violates the Pennsylvania Constitution.