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What Every Civil Legal Services Provider Should Know About Stalking: Investigation, Prosecution and Working with Victims
Originally presented as a training for law enforcement officers, this program
contains valuable information for civil legal services practitioners.
Presentations by police, prosecutor, and mental health officials discuss the
important and intertwined issues of enforcement of stalking laws and treating
the complainant-victims with respect and avoiding re-victimizing those seeking
recourse from the judicial system. A civil legal services attorney presents
topics of interest including the crime of stalking, alternate Family Court
venues for qualifying victims, and what civil legal providers can do for
complainant-victims in the criminal venue. The victim perspective is represented
as well with a presentation by a victim of stalking who speaks about the
decision making process related to whether to report the crime and how stalking
continues to effect her day-to-day decisions.
This program was developed with funding from the Department of Justice's Legal
Assistance to Victims grant pursuant to the Violence Against Women Act. It
provides unique insight into the criminal investigation and prosecution of
stalking that are easily transferrable to the litigation of the stalking
offenses in family court.
Date of original presentation: 09/05/2012
Presenters:
Part 1: Investigating and Prosecuting Stalking Cases: Alice D. Decker, Esq.,
Legal Aid Society of Mid-New York, Inc.; Undersheriff Robert S. Swenszkowski,
Oneida County Sheriff's Office; Dawn Catera Lupi, Esq., Oneida County District
Attorney's Office
Part 2: Working with Stalking Victims: Undersheriff Robert S. Swenszkowski,
Oneida County Sheriff's Office; Bernadette McDaniel, MSW, MA/CRJ, YWCA of Mohawk
Valley; Cindy Domingue-Hendrickson, Esq., Legal Aid Society of Mid-New York,
Inc.
Total viewing time: 2 hours 11 minutes
There is no CLE credit for viewing this presentation