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Amanda Pump, CFS president and CEO, said the pet program, which was funded through a grant from the U.S. Justice Department’s Office of Violence Against Women, was created to remove the barrier ...
The Office for Victims of Crime, established by the Victims of Crime Act (VOCA) of 1984, administers the Crime Victims Fund. The fund is financed by fines paid by convicted federal offenders. As of September 2013, the Fund balance had reached almost $9 billion.
For victims of domestic violence and certain other crimes such as child abuse, if the offender lacks the means to provide compensation, or if the offender remains anonymous, the state of Greece, under the Compensation Directive 2004/80/EC is obliged to provide compensation to victims of intentional crimes of violence. [79]
In March, the Clay County (Kentucky) Circuit Court entered an agreed order of judgment resolving the Animal Legal Defense Fund's lawsuit against the county to stop systematic abuses at the local animal shelter. [21] In June, the Animal Legal Defense Fund finalized a settlement and court order resolving a lawsuit alleging widespread egregious ...
(The Center Square) – Former Illinois Attorney General candidate Thomas Devore is accusing the Bond County Board of violating state law after the board approved a new budget for fiscal year 2025.
Others feel an animal abuse registry in New Hampshire could be a slippery slope, especially in a society where information is widely available on the internet – and what people do with it can be ...
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.
At the invitation of local agencies, ASPCA deploys to sites of large-scale animal abuse, animal neglect, natural disasters, or man-made disasters in which animals are at risk. Teams, including National Field Response, Legal Advocacy and Investigations, Forensic Sciences, the Cruelty Recovery Center, Relocation and the Behavioral Sciences team ...