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Committee backs Family Justice Center Act after broad testimony from law enforcement and advocates
Summary
House Bill 1283, a framework bill encouraging local family justice centers to coordinate services for domestic-violence survivors, advanced after testimony from family-justice-center operators, law-enforcement leaders and the Georgia Commission on Family Violence; sponsors said it requires no new state agency or unfunded mandates.
The Senate Public Safety Committee voted to advance House Bill 1283, the Family Justice Center Act, after hearing testimony from local family justice center leaders, law enforcement and the Georgia Commission on Family Violence.
Representative Panic introduced the bill as a voluntary framework placed under the Criminal Justice Coordinating Council that would allow communities to establish family justice centers to co-locate law enforcement, prosecutors, advocates, counseling…
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