D.A. Featured Panelist at Policy Summit on Violence Against Women

D.A. Featured Panelist at Policy Summit
on Violence Against Women

March 10, 2008
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contacts: Joe Scott, Director of Communications
Sandi Gibbons, Public Information Officer
Jane Robison, News Secretary
(213) 974-3525

LOS ANGELES – District Attorney Steve Cooley will participate in a day-long policy summit next week for the prevention, intervention and suppression of gender-based violence.

The summit, Ending Violence Against Women: Making it Happen in L.A., will be held March 12 at the California Endowment, Center for Healthy Communities, 1000 N. Alameda St., Los Angeles.

“Domestic violence, human trafficking, sexual assault, and other forms of gender-based violence supersede barriers of race, age and socioeconomic status, shattering untold lives each year,” District Attorney Steve Cooley said. “This summit offers community stakeholders an excellent opportunity for the exchange of ideas of how to improve policies to better protect women.”

Roughly 280 participants are expected to attend the summit and partake in workshops that identify factors and consequences of gender-based violence, and look at systemic lapses in dealing with such crime. Workshop panelists include Head Deputy District Attorney Victoria Adams of Family Violence Division and Pamela Booth, a Director of the D.A.'s Bureau of Branch and Area Operations, Region II.

Cooley, one of six expert panelists, will take part in an interactive, two-hour session in which summit participants will present recommendations – formulated during the course of the day – for procedure-related improvements in the provision of services to victims and survivors.

Other panelists include leadership from the California Assembly, the California State Commission on the Status of Women and the Los Angeles Police Department. News Anchor Jan Stevens of KFWB will moderate the panel.

The summit is sponsored by Soroptimist International, Los Angeles; Zonta International, District 9; American Association of University Women, California; and Business and Professional Women, International. ___________________________________________________

To learn more about Ending Violence Against Women: Making it Happen in L.A., visit http://endviolenceagainstwomen.org.

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