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Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes makes the case for continued Victims of Crime Act funding.
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Kristin Murphy, Deseret News
Unless the United States Senate acts quickly, victims of crime face drastic cuts to the vital services that help them find justice and healing. In 1984, Congress passed the Victims of Crime Act (VOCA), establishing a fund financed by convicted federal offenders not taxpayers to support victim services. In Utah, those criminal fines have been used to serve thousands of victims of child abuse, domestic violence, sexual assault, trafficking, homicide and other crimes.
Among those service providers are Utah’s Children’s Justice Centers (CJCs), administered by my office in partnership with counties, private sector volunteers, business leaders and experts in social work, education, law, health care and law enforcement. At each of Utah’s 25 CJCs, trained and caring professionals guide child abuse victims and their families thr
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