SM 106 — DOMESTIC VIOLENCE RESPONSE TEAMS

SENATE MEMORIAL 106 54TH LEGISLATURE - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - FIRST SESSION, 2019 INTRODUCED BY Antoinette Sedillo Lopez 6 8 10 A MEMORIAL REQUESTING THE NEW MEXICO COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE TO STUDY THE FEASIBILITY OF THE CREATION OF TWO PILOT DOMESTIC VIOLENCE COORDINATED COMMUNITY RESPONSE TEAMS.

156 WHEREAS, nationally and in New Mexico, over one in three women will experience domestic violence in her lifetime, and e t 17 one in seven men will experience domestic violence in his w l n d 18 lifetime;

and = = 19 a l WHEREAS, data collected by the New Mexico interpersonal i a e r 20 violence data central repository data reveals that adult a t m m 21 victims who sought the assistance of service providers in 2017 d r e 22 represent thirty percent of domestic violence victims c e s k 23 identified by law enforcement;

and e a n b 24 WHEREAS, offenders who participated in treatment programs u [ in 2017 represent five and five-tenths percent of the domestic .214138.1 violence suspects identified by law enforcement;

and SM 106 Page 1 WHEREAS, according to the same source, of the one thousand nine hundred fifty-six cases of domestic violence heard in district courts in 2017, twenty-nine percent resulted in a guilty plea or conviction, less than one percent resulted in an acquittal, fifty-four percent were dismissed and sixteen percent resulted in "other" dispositions;

and WHEREAS, a coordinated community response has been shown to increase referrals to services for victims, increase e e 17 offender participation in batterers' intervention programs, e e n d 18 increase the safety of survivors and victims, increase the = = l ] 19 number of cases prosecuted, reduce domestic violence dismissal a l r i 20 rates and increase abuser accountability;

and t e a t WHEREAS, the recommendations of the New Mexico intimate m m 21 e d r e 22 partner violence death review team identify many areas of c e r c 23 improvement that could be addressed by an effective coordinated e a n b 24 community response, including training, cooperation among u [ agencies and law enforcement and community education and .214138.1 - 2 - outreach;

and WHEREAS, an effective coordinated community response SM 106 Page 2 involves extensive interagency, law enforcement, prosecution and judicial cooperation and education;

and WHEREAS, an effective coordinated community response would e e 17 achieve systemic changes;

and e e n d 18 WHEREAS, effective coordinated community responses bring = = l ] 19 together all relevant parties who work together to pursue a l r i 20 shared objectives, and membership of teams depends on the local t e a t context;

and m m 21 e d r e 22 WHEREAS, effective coordinated community responses c e r c 23 mobilize the community, outreach education and primary e a n b 24 prevention efforts and include sustained local campaigns u [ engaging the media and diverse organizations and sectors of the .214138.1 - 3 - population to:

and SM 106 Page 3 WHEREAS, data should be constantly collected, and coordinated community response progress toward objectives should be measured to evaluate effectiveness, including the monitoring of perpetrator interventions and efforts to adjust policies and procedures to end perpetrator impunity;

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE SENATE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO that the New Mexico coalition against domestic violence be requested to study the feasibility of the creation of two pilot projects to establish effective coordinated e e 17 community response teams;

and e e n d 18 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the proposed pilot projects = = l ] 19 would place a coordinated community response team in the a l r i 20 thirteenth judicial district and in the eleventh judicial t e a t district;

and m m 21 e d r e 22 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the pilot coordinated c e r c 23 community response teams would study methods of coordination, e a n b 24 training, monitoring, evaluating and reporting;

and u [ BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the pilot coordinated .214138.1 - 4 - community response teams would ascertain the dismissal rate for domestic violence cases in their areas and identify the primary factors affecting the dismissal rates;

and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the pilot coordinated SM 106 Page 4 community response teams would implement use of the Ontario domestic assault risk assessment or a similar risk assessment tool that would be documented in arrest reports, and this information would be accessible to courts, probation officers, batterers' intervention programs and victim services agencies;

e e 17 and e e n d 18 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the pilot coordinated = = l ] 19 community response teams would explore the Colorado model of a l r i 20 batterers' intervention programs;

and t e a t BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the New Mexico coalition m m 21 e d r e 22 against domestic violence be requested to report its findings c e r c 23 and recommendations to the appropriate interim legislative e a n b 24 committee by October 1, 2019;

and u [ BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this memorial be .214138.1 - 5 - transmitted to the president of the New Mexico coalition against domestic violence.

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