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Oregon DOJ requests $18.5 million backfill after 42% VOCA cut, warns victim services at risk
Summary
The Department of Justice's Crime Victim and Survivor Services Division told lawmakers a 42% drop in federal VOCA funding in 2024 threatens statewide victim services and asked the committee to approve an $18.5 million backfill to avoid program cuts.
The Oregon Department of Justice asked the legislature to backfill $18,500,000 in federal Victims of Crime Act (VOCA) funding that the division says dropped 42% in 2024, threatening victim services across the state.
Shannon Savelle, director of the Crime Victim and Survivor Services Division (CVSSD), told the Public Safety subcommittee on April 15 during the House Bill 5014 informational hearing that VOCA has been Oregon's primary federal funding source for victim services and that the sudden drop would destabilize more than 40 different victim service programs supported by VOCA. "We're requesting the 18,500,000.0 to keep victim and survivor service providers at their current service level of funding and prevent cuts that would destabilize these programs," Savelle said.
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