Originally Posted by Taltarzac725

I had been trying to connect that (or something like it) to libraries in the 2000s. Victim Services Directory Had a lot of success with it too. It is far from re-inventing the wheel. And you are probably missing a lot of stuff just using Google. People are the major sources for aid much of the time.

And there are people -- I know some of them-- who do not use the Internet all that much.

Go to a large public law library and see what that law library might have for survivors/victims of crimes which you cannot find readily through a Google Search. I as a librarian do not see Google as being an adequate replacement for someone who knows the community and the people in it who can help a survivor/victim of crime. This will be different in the Villages from Topeka, Kansas to Gainesville, FL to Bushnell, FL to Ocala to St. Paul, MN to Juneau, Alaska.

Crime victims and survivors also readily change with technology as do what is available to them. Facebook and other social media, for instance, offer new ways of helping survivors/victims of crimes. But also create methods that criminals can make new victims/survivors.

For instance, I have had harassers and stalkers on TOTV who make me have to come with new ways of getting through this kind of contemptible behavior. There are even now laws against cyber harassers and stalkers.