January 18, 2024Building Block of Justice: Victims’ Rights & RemediesMeg Garvin, NCVLIIn 2024 NCVLI’s theme is: Building Blocks of Justice: Victims’ Rights & Remedies. We so often talk about rights but let’s focus on “remedies”. A critique of the victims’...
November 14, 2023Legitimizing Victim Counsel in 2023By Kazi Houston, MSW, JD, Legal Director, Emily Tofte Nestaval, MSW, Executive Director Rocky Mountain Victim Law CenterRocky Mountain Victim Law Center (RMvlc) has a mission to elevate victims’ voices, champion...
October 31, 2023Barriers to Attaining Victim StatusBy Mariam El-menshawi She/Her | Executive Director , California Victim Resource CenterNot everyone who is harmed by crime attains legal victim status, as there are a multitude of barriers that prevent this from...
October 4, 2023Historic Changes for Military Victims - But the Work is not DoneBy Meg Garvin MA, JD, MstIn late July, after a long and winding road that included much study, debate, and legislative negotiation, President Biden signed an executive order that creates...
September 20, 2023Toward a More Meaningful Vision of Victim PrivacyBy Elizabeth Well of Ohio Crime Victim Justice CenterThe National Crime Victim Law Conference is always inspiring and invigorating. No man is an island, but attorneys and advocates doing victim’s...
August 29, 2023Victims’ Right to Participate Post-ConvictionMeg Garvin, MA, JD, MstIn August, nearly 40 years after their murders, the family of Bradley and Ferne Hart filed a brief in the Third Circuit Court of Appeals seeking to be treated fairly and with...
I’m looking forward to the annual NCVLI Crime Victim Law Conference where I will be presenting with several family members who lost loved ones in the Boeing 737 MAX crashes: Lion Air Flight 610 and Ethiopian Air Flight 302.
In the last several decades, as crime victims’ rights protections have proliferated, it has become necessary to define “victim” with precision.
Let’s get funding for victim lawyers – including passing the Courtney Wild Crime Victims’ Rights Reform Act!
April 24, 2023SCOTUS: “True Threat” Decision Must Protect Victims of StalkingMeg Garvin, MA, JD, Mst Executive DirectorLast week, SCOTUS heard oral arguments in Counterman v. Colorado, in which Colorado musician, Coles Whalen, was threatened by Billy Counterman for...
