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Committee amends ordinance to add victim coordinator line item, forwards ordinance 25-25 to full court
Summary
The Personnel Committee amended proposed ordinance 25-25 to add a victim coordinator position for the prosecuting attorney's office and forwarded the ordinance to the full court; funding will be addressed in next year’s budget process.
The Faulkner County Personnel Committee amended proposed ordinance 25-25 to create a permanent victim services position in the prosecuting attorney’s office and forwarded the ordinance to the full court for inclusion on the agenda.
Prosecuting Attorney Miss Cruz told the committee that her office has lost several victim services positions in recent years after cuts to VOCA (Victims of Crime Act) federal grant funding. "We have really over the last 5 or 6 years sustained a lot of VOCA, victim of crimes, federal grant funding…
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