In April, Connecticut State Victim Advocate Garvin Ambrose spoke enthusiastically about heading up a new state commission that would be the first of its type in the country.
Made up of lawyers, Judicial Branch officials, police chiefs and others, the Victims’ Rights Enforcement Advisory Committee was to review policies and services afforded to crime victims and assess how well Connecticut complies with the constitutional and statutory rights of victims. In Ambrose’s view, there was a lot of work to be done: While the state had good victims’ rights laws on the book, he told the Law Tribune, it wasn’t doing a good job of enforcing them.
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