What services does the Victims’ Rights Division provide?
- Initial Contact: Contact victims by mail as soon as the case is accepted for prosecution.
- Case Status: Provide on-going, up-dated case status information.
- Criminal Justice System Information: Explain court procedures and schedules.
- Crime Victim Compensation Fund: Provide information and assist victims of violent crime in filing applications for benefits.
- Victim Impact Statements: Provide information and assist victims of violent crime in completing a Victim Impact Statement.
- Referrals: Direct victims to community resources and social services.
- Restitution: Collect information on victims’ property loss and forward to prosecutors; serve as a conduit for the payment of lump sum restitution to crime victims.
- Court Accompaniment: Accompany victims to court upon their or the prosecutor’s request.
- Testing For Sexual Assault Defendants: Coordinate AIDS and other Sexual Transmitted Disease testing for defendants indicted or who waives indictment for Sexual Assault, Aggravated Sexual Assault and Indecency with a Child by contact.
- Transportation Assistance: Provide bus passes to assist in transportation to court.
- Anatomical Dolls and Drawings: Provide dolls and drawings to assist prosecutors in the interview and testimony in child abuse cases.
- Court Orientation Coloring Books: Provide coloring books and crayons for children preparing to testify in court.
