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Sally Winn, Director of Legal Services for YWCA Spokane, describes the efforts in Spokane to develop standardized compliance processes that ensure people prohibited from having firearms by domestic violence protection order are turning in firearms in a safe and…
Judge Dimple Malholtra, of Travis County, TX, describes efforts to standardize court orders for firearm transfer in domestic violence cases. This is part of Austin, TX’s work as a Firearm Technical Assistance Project site to reduce domestic violence homicides.…
Hunter Dodson of Muscogee Creek Nation describes the Nation’s work as a Firearms Technical Assistance Project site to build and implement consistent and effective processes to remove the risk of firearms in high-risk domestic violence cases. This work…
Bridget DeCrane, of the City Attorney’s Office in Columbus, Ohio, describes the work of a multidisciplinary team in Columbus to develop an advocacy and law enforcement co-response in an effort to reduce domestic violence homicides. The work was supported…
The CCDV: The Bexar County, TX Collaborative Commission on Domestic Violence (CCDV) is a multidisciplinary group of committed professionals that first came together in 2019 after multiple domestic violence-related homicides in their community. It consists of many legal system representatives,…
A Federal-State-Local Coordinated Criminal Justice Approach Since 2018 the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Oklahoma (WDOK) has prioritized its “Operation 922” initiative. Named after the federal crime at 18 U.S.C. 922, which prohibits persons with certain statuses…
A Federal-State-Local Coordinated Criminal Justice Approach In October 2020, the United States Attorney for the Northern District of Alabama (NDAL) announced the launch of “Operation Safe Families,” inspired by “Operation 922” in Oklahoma City, OK led by the U.S. Attorney’s…
A Federal-State-Local Criminal and Civil Justice Approach For years local prosecutors in DeKalb County, GA were frustrated by the devastating rates of intimate partner gun violence in their community and were frustrated by the limited options in state law to…
The OVW-funded Firearms Technical Assistance Project (FTAP) is grounded in supporting communities to better serve survivors by working to reduce firearms related domestic violence. As the technical assistance provider for the 12 pilot sites across the country—along with our partners…
Prevalence rates of both intimate partner violence and gun violence remain pervasive. Research demonstrates a lethal association when intimate partner violence and firearms are combined.
