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County panel presents 2024 domestic-violence data showing steady demand for services
Summary
The Collaborative Commission on Domestic Violence told Bexar County commissioners the 2024 statistical report shows steady family-violence calls and continued need for cross-agency services; commissioners urged using data to plan budgeted resources.
Judge Monique Diaz, co-chair of the Collaborative Commission on Domestic Violence, presented the CCDV’s 2024 statistical data report and told the court the data cover 2022 through 2024 and were compiled with city and county partners. She said combined law-enforcement family-violence calls were "close to 59,000 calls in 2024," which she framed as roughly "seven family-violence related calls in our city every hour."
Diaz highlighted other measures of system demand: magistrates issued more than 2,000 emergency protection orders, civil protective-order petitions exceeded 1,500 in district court, and family-violence-related homicides decreased slightly from 33 in 2023 to 32 in 2024. She also noted the report aggregates shelter, advocacy and legal-assistance figures, including approximately 1,000 shelter stays, about 36,000 bed nights, and over 19,000 recipients of nonresidential advocacy services through the county Justice Center and partners.
Commissioners responded by urging staff to use the data in upcoming budget planning. Commissioner Rodriguez said the "seven domestic-violence related calls per hour" statistic is "staggering" and pressed for more detailed analysis ahead of summer budget deliberations. Commissioner Clay Flores asked that deeper budget-oriented follow-up be timed to the county’s resource-planning cycle.
Diaz and other CCDV speakers (including contributing prosecutors and service providers) emphasized that higher contact rates can reflect improved reporting and navigation rather than only worsening prevalence. The CCDV said it will return with a progress report and a discussion of how resource needs map onto service gaps and prevention efforts.
The court accepted the report by motion; no specific program funding decisions were adopted at the meeting. The CCDV presentation and the court’s discussion make the report part of the local record as the county moves into its next budget cycle.
