By Carmen Duarte
Arizona Daily Star
A $622,000 federal grant was awarded to the Pima County Attorney’s Office to expand advocacy services to crime victims in outlying county municipal courts.
The county attorney’s Victim Services Division will receive the money to re-establish and staff satellite offices in Oro Valley/Marana and Sahuarita/Green Valley, said Pima County Attorney Barbara LaWall.
“I am very pleased that we have been granted the additional resources needed to significantly enhance our services in high-growth areas of the county,” said LaWall in a news release. “We will now be able to better address the needs of all our victims, providing support and court advocacy to those victims appearing in municipal courts, in addition to those appearing in Pima County Superior and Justice Courts.”
The three-year grant will be used to hire four new crime victim advocates, and provide them with vehicles, said LaWall in an interview.
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