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The WITSEC program was formally established under Title V of the Organized Crime Control Act of 1970, which states that the United States Attorney General may provide for the relocation and protection of a witness or potential witness of the federal government or a state government in an official proceeding concerning organized crime or other serious offenses.
The United States established a formal program of witness protection, run by the U.S. Marshals Service, under the Organized Crime Control Act of 1970. Before that, witness protection had been instituted under the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871 to protect people testifying against members of the Ku Klux Klan.
The federal witness protection program was developed because of the difficulty of prosecuting cases where witnesses would disappear shortly before trial. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] [ not specific enough to verify ] These programs frequently require the witness to leave his residence or even family so that he can be protected before the trial occurs.
The average cost to relocate a victim or a witness and their family in Kansas City ranges from $3,000 to $4,000, officials said.
But at the end of 2022, city leaders said they finally had solutions, pointing to a new violence intervention initiative called Partners for Peace and a local victim-witness relocation program ...
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Gerald Shur, founder of the Witness Protection Program (WITSEC), agreed to an unprecedented thirty-family-member relocation, making it the highest single relocation cost for one witness in the history of the WITSEC. Out of an approved thirty members, sixteen elected to enter.
Pages in category "People who entered the United States Federal Witness Protection Program" The following 54 pages are in this category, out of 54 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .