What Do Professionals Need to Know?
Courts and the Legal System
Links
The following are links to information specifically related to domestic violence and the courts and legal System systems. The sites are provided as a reference. The content on the site represents the views of the authors and should not be construed as representing the opinions or positions of the New York State Office for the Prevention of Domestic Violence.
- VINE (Victim Information and Notification
Everyday)
VINE is a 24-hour, toll-free hotline that provides crime victims with up-to-date inmate location and custody status information on offenders throughout New York State. In addition, callers can register to receive automatic notification by phone when their offender is scheduled for release from jail, or transfer to another
facility
- University of
New York at Buffalo School of Law Family Violence Clinic For
several years, OPDV has had a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the
UB Family Law Clinic, which provides agency leadership and guidance around
family violence issues, law enforcement and court training and technical
assistance, and domestic violence victim advocacy.
- Vera Institute of Justice Family Violence Department
- National Council of Juvenile and Family
Court Judges promotes improved
court responses to family violence.
- Intimate
Partner Sexual abuse: Adjudicating this Hidden Dimension of Domestic Violence
This is a free course aimed primarily at judicial training but it is open to everyone and it should be useful to anyone working in the field of domestic violence.
