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DeKalb commissioners declare October Domestic Violence Awareness Month; Women's Resource Center to mark 30th vigil
Summary
The board proclaimed October as National Domestic Violence Awareness Month and recognized local victim services; the Women's Resource Center to End Domestic Violence highlighted 40 years of local services and recent fatality counts.
DeKalb County commissioners on Oct. 14 proclaimed October as National Domestic Violence Awareness Month and recognized local partners who provide victim services.
Presiding officer Michelle Long Spears read the proclamation into the record and noted statistics cited in the proclamation: that a woman in the U.S. is beaten or assaulted every nine seconds and that Georgia reported 42,184 incidents of family…
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