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Registration is open for the American Indian Justice Conference, June 28-30
The American Indian Justice Conference offers tribes across the nation an opportunity to learn strategies to enhance tribal justice systems while providing essential information on topics such as court planning and development, diversionary court programs, traditional dispute resolution, justice system responses to alcohol and substance abuse, and emerging issues that are relevant to tribal justice system development. This is a free virtual event. To Register: American Indian Justice Conference 2022. Who [...]
Department of Justice Updates Gender Bias Guidance
Last week, the Department of Justice announced updated guidance, “Improving Law Enforcement Response to Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence by Identifying and Preventing Gender Bias,” designed to help law enforcement agencies (LEAs) improve their response to sexual assault and domestic violence. The 2015 guidance has been revised to account for the impact of bias based on factors other than gender, incorporate new resources and research, provide improved case examples illustrating [...]
NOW AVAILABLE: Two non-OVW funded solicitations that address Community Violence Intervention and Prevention Initiative (CVIPI)
The Office of Justice Programs (OJP) has released two solicitations that address gender-based violence. Below are links to their solicitations, as well as their due dates. Click on the links to learn more. FY 2022 Office of Justice Programs Community Based Violence Intervention and Prevention Initiative Grants.gov Deadline: 8:59 p.m. eastern time on Tuesday, June 21, 2022, Application JustGrants Deadline: 8:59 p.m. eastern time on Monday, June 27, 2022 NIJ FY 2022 [...]
Amnesty International Report on VAIW Launched
Today Amnesty International launched their report on Violence Against Native Women: The Never-ending Maze: Continued failure to protect Indigenous women from sexual violence in the USA: https://www.amnestyusa.org/maze/. From the report: "American Indian and Alaska Native women face some of the highest rates of sexual violence in the United States: 56.1 percent of Native women have experienced sexual violence; Native women are 2.2 times more likely to be raped than non-Hispanic [...]
Sexual assault counselors push to protect confidentiality with victims
Advocates say disclosure of information could have a chilling effect on the willingness to report. Victims' advocates say Minnesota judges inconsistently apply a state law protecting communications between sexual assault counselors and people who come to them for help. Now, those groups have taken their case all the way to the Minnesota Supreme Court, appealing a ruling in which a district court allowed review of a woman's communications with a [...]
