Crime Victims Board

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Many victims of crime have no knowledge of the existence of services provided by the Crime Victims Board (CVB), or any awareness of their basic rights or the availability of victim assistance programs in their communities. This lack of information is a grave disservice to one of the State’s most vulnerable populations – innocent victims of crime.

To address this problem, Chapter 173 of 2006 was enacted to ensure that crime victims are made aware of their rights and are informed about the existence of victims’ services and programs. This law requires CVB to provide information cards to police agencies for distribution to crime victims. The cards inform crime victims of the CVB’s locations, phone numbers, website address and services. The card also includes information on a victim’s basic rights and provides space for handwritten entry of appropriate local victim assistance programs. The cards have been distributed to law enforcement agencies across the State.

This law also required the CVB and the New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services (DCJS) to develop a form to be used by all district attorney offices to report the distribution of the CVB’s The Rights of Crime Victims in New York State pamphlet. The law requires the district attorneys to complete the form annually and submit it to the CVB each year by January 1. Additionally, district attorneys are required to make this report available to crime victims or their families free of charge or to others for a fee not to exceed the cost of reproduction. District attorneys may download a copy of the reporting form here

Completed forms may be electronically submitted to cvbdata@cvb.state.ny.us