Senator Hatch was one of the first US Congressmen to help me with seeing the need to get libraries involved with delivering social services in the guise of valuable information for survivors/victims of crimes.

More politicians came around after Senator Orrin Hatch-- but that was after I mentioned this precedent he set by xeroxing the letter from him along with copies of many others like those from various State victim assistance agencies. You would think it is a no brainer to help victims/survivors of crimes.

Not really though as many libraries (in 2012) still do not have much of anything in the way of links to social service websites offering assistance to victims/survivors of crimes.

I went down to the Pinellas County (FL) Sheriff's Office back in September 2002 to give them a couple hundred copies of these various letters (like Senator Hatch's) and a Homicide Detective I talked to said they had very mixed feelings about arming survivors/victims of crimes with information about their rights and resources available to them. I guess they add an unpredictable element to the US Justice System.