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Survivor‑services and eviction‑defense advocates urge full restoration of VOCA and Right to Counsel funding
Summary
Providers and legal advocates told the Appropriations Committee partial restoration of crime victim services and eviction defense funding risks program closures and loss of legal representation; they requested the governor's budget be amended to restore roughly $21.38M for victim services and $3M for right‑to‑counsel funding.
Advocates for crime victims, legal services and eviction defense pressed the House Appropriations Committee to restore funding for victim services and right‑to‑counsel programs that they say the governor's supplemental budget does not fully fund.
Kate Garvey, CEO of the King County Sexual Assault Resource Center (CASARC), said the governor allocated $12 million for victim…
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