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Guam committee hears support for Jane Flores’ nomination to Criminal Injuries Compensation Commission
Summary
Senate hearing on Feb. 6, 2025, featured testimony from the CICC chair and victim‑service advocates backing Governor Lourdes Leon Guerrero’s nominee Jane Flores and urging more stable staffing, outreach and funding so victims receive timely reimbursements under the VOCA‑funded program.
Senator Atelo Tairi opened a public hearing Feb. 6, 2025, on Governor Lourdes Leon Guerrero’s nomination of Jane Flores to a four‑year term on the Criminal Injuries Compensation Commission (CICC), the panel that adjudicates claims and authorizes payments to victims of violent crime.
Elizabeth Barrett Anderson, retired Superior Court judge and chair of the CICC, told the committee she has known Flores for more than 20 years and urged prompt confirmation. "She's the right stuff and I think she will be a very very strong commissioner," Anderson said, citing Flores’s experience in government and with victim services.
Anderson described the commission as operational since 2016 and said recent statutory and regulatory changes (a 2023 statute and Guam Administrative Rules and…
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