The improving criminal justice responses to domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking grant program is authorized by 34 U.S.C. 10461-10465 and implemented through regulations at…

The Nevada Office of the Attorney General, in partnership with several local entities, received a $500,000 continuation award under the U.S. Department of Justice's Grants to Encourage Arrest Policies and Enforcement of Protection Orders Program (CFDA 16.590). This 3-year grant project will continue improving the criminal justice system's response to domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking throughout the state of Nevada. Key activities include:

1. Increasing participation in the coordinated community response model between two rural counties;
2. Establishing a system-based victim witness advocate position for the bi-county area; and
3. Providing training for prosecutors, law enforcement, and prosecution-related personnel on best practices for investigating and prosecuting these crimes to enhance offender accountability and protect victim safety and autonomy.

The funding will enable the grantee and its project partners to implement evidence-based strategies that foster victim safety and offender accountability in domestic and sexual violence cases.

The improving criminal justice responses to domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking grant program is authorized by 34 U.S.C. 10461-10465 and implemented through regulations at 28 C.F.R. Part 90, subpart d. The program fosters victim safety and offender accountability in cases of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking by encouraging state, local, and tribal governments and courts to work collaboratively with community partners to identify problems and share ideas that will result in effectively responding to these crimes. An integral component of this program is the development, revitalization, or enhancement of a coordinated community response that brings together criminal justice agencies, victim services providers, and community-based organizations that respond to domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking. The grantee, in collaboration with its project partners, will use this continuation award to continue improving the jurisdictions criminal justice system response to domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking. Specifically, the project will: 1) implement activities focused on victim safety and offender accountability; 2) participate in mandated OVW training and technical assistance; and 3) work toward sustainability of project activities. Through this continuation grants to improve the criminal justice response project, the nevada office of the attorney general, in partnership with community chest, INC., the lyon county district attorney, the lyon county sheriffs office, domestic violence intervention, the churchill county district attorney, and the churchill county sheriffs office, will implement a project addressing the following purpose areas: 5, 16, and 19. This project will be enacted throughout the state of nevada. The project will address priority area: 3. Specific activities will include: 1) increased participation in the coordinated community response model of all partners between two rural counties; 2) a system based victim witness advocate position for the BI-county area; and 3) training for prosecutors, law enforcement, and prosecution-related personnel on best practices in the investigation and prosecution of domestic and sexual violence, stalking, human trafficking, and dating violence cases to ensure offender accountability as well as victim safety and autonomy.