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Promising Practices: Federal-State-Local Coordinated Justice System Responses to Domestic Violence and Firearms
November 7, 2024
Over several months in 2024, the National Resource Center on Domestic Violence and Firearms (NRCDVF) conducted site visits in three communities, each of which has developed a multi-jurisdictional collaboration with the specific goal of addressing firearm-facilitated domestic violence and domestic violence-derived community violence through better implementation and enforcement of the federal laws that prohibit certain abusers from accessing firearms.
Those communities—DeKalb County, GA; Oklahoma City, OK; and Birmingham, AL—each developed a collaborative initiative that reflects their community and its needs. Each of these three programs are discussed in this resource, including who participates in the initiative, how resources are allocated, the shape the program takes, and the benefits to each community.
The aim of this resource is to provide these models as ones which may be adopted, or adapted, for your own community. The partners within each of these community models were gracious and generous in offering honest reflection on the process of developing these initiatives. The last section of this resource is a set of tips taken directly from the experience of these communities.
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