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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.
Programs that serve victims of domestic violence are bracing for unprecedented cuts that will also affect rape crisis hotlines, child abuse centers and legal service providers across California.
California Governor Gavin Newsom has signed a bill that requires automakers selling internet-connected cars to do more to protect domestic abuse survivors, a move that may expand such safeguards ...
Misdemeanor Penalties. Initiative Statute, was a referendum passed by voters in the state of California on November 4, 2014. The measure was also referred to by its supporters as the Safe Neighborhoods and Schools Act. [2] It recategorized some nonviolent offenses as misdemeanors rather than felonies, as they had previously been categorized.
Community violence prevention programs. Protections for victims who are evicted from their homes because of events related to domestic violence or stalking. Funding for victim assistance services, like rape crisis centers and hotlines. Programs to meet the needs of immigrant women and women of different races or ethnicities.
The bill, which passed the California state legislature late last month with overwhelming support, now awaits a decision from Governor Gavin Newsom on whether he will sign it into law.
In 2003, CAPTA was amended by the Keeping Children and Families Safe Act of 2003 (P.L. 108–36,), [11] which amended Title I and replaced Title II, Community-Based Family Resource and Support Program with Community-Based Grants for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect.
“California law already recognizes domestic violence is a violent crime that can be charged as a strike under California’s three-strikes law when the facts show an assault that was likely to ...