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Advocates and survivors urge funding, shelters, trauma-informed courts and data transparency
Summary
Victim-service organizations and survivors asked council for sustained funding, more shelter and relocation options, trauma-informed training for judges and officers, remote testimony options, streamlined PFAs and interpreter access, and an annual state-of-the-city domestic-violence report to track outcomes.
A broad coalition of victim-service providers and survivors urged Philadelphia City Council to convert the hearing's urgency into funding and process changes that survivors can use today.
Joanna Otero Cruz, executive director of Women Against Abuse, summarized six priority reforms: survivor-centered safety, assigning domestic-violence cases to experienced prosecutors through sentencing, improved victim engagement with consistent ADA contact, expedited warrants and PFA/gun-surrender…
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