Talk of The Villages Florida - Rentals, Entertainment & More
Talk of The Villages Florida - Rentals, Entertainment & More
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9 Family Connection Special. The Domestic Violence Crisis in Central Florida.
9 Family Connection Special - The domestic violence crisis in... | www.wftv.com
I hope that you will help with solving this problem. Watch the WFTV Vanessa Welch and Bob Opsahl Special and then get involved with this in some way. What are some solutions that you would recommend? I know there is a lot of wisdom among people on TOTV as well as Village residents. I had pursued getting links to Victims Services resources in libraries since at least 2000 in Central Florida libraries as well as to libraries all over the US and even abroad. Gary Corsair, the Villages Daily Sun reporter, had even done an Memorial Day weekend article on my efforts with respect to Villages' area libraries back in 2007. Be one year about from Memorial Day (07) to Memorial Day (08) Much more can be done. Since I have 4 degrees and two of these are in areas related to law and librarianship I have always seen education and access to information as keys to solving this problem. The video shown last night on ABC in Orlando had other solutions. Cops' solutions come from other life experiences, teachers from another, journalists probably from yet another. Then there are individual histories that come into play. Would like to know what you think? Write the people involved with addressing this problem if you do have a solution. I plan to add my two cents about libraries and a link to the Florida Victim Services Directory. http://myfloridalegal.com/directory Contact the libraries and Sheriff's Offices in the area about pertinent links from their respective web-sites. Counseling and mental health links would also be very relevant IMHO. If you do not live in Central Florida see how your Community stacks up in this area by doing various searches on victim services providers in your area and how much visibility they might have in your opinion. |
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When you speak about "education" are you talking about educating the victims about services that are available to help them or about educating the cowardly brutes who beat their spouses?
If you are talking about the victims I am with you 100%. If you are talking about the cowards who beat their wives, the only "education" they need is to spend some long hard time in the slammer. They already know that what they are doing is wrong. They prosper only because they are allowed to get away with it.
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National Center on Domestic and Sexual Violence http://www.ncdsv.org/ncd_newscover.html |
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I guess the best thing for me to say is that we disagree.
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Yes. Education about why men/women/child batter is important as well as are methods to stop this abuse. Very few really effective methods IMHO involve jail time. Support groups with helping getting the battered person out of the reach of the batterer are important as are extended family.
Unless you address the cause of the violence I see that you just will have another person being battered when the person sentenced gets out of jail. Not sure how the prison gang culture would help much of anyone get over violent tendencies. |
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My concern & sympathy is 100% with the victims. The more resources they have, the better. I have no pity for and don't believe in any excuses or squishy "understanding" for the aggressors. The only thing they deserve is severe punishment. That's all I'm going to add since to go any farther will take us into the politcal area which is forbidden by the board.
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I do believe that the protections provided by the US and State Constitutions in the criminal justice system are very important and could hardly be called as ending up with "squishy" results. |
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Link for that Task Force.
Orange County Domestic Violence Task Force
Do not see any way of contacting them however. http://www.orangecountydomesticviole...org/Events.php I did like them on Facebook and could at least put my input on there. http://www.orangecountydomesticviole...org/About.html |
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Hope some TOTVers will help with this.
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I will be contacting the Lake/Sumter/Marion County public libraries as well as the area County Sheriff's and PDs as well via their websites about links to the Florida Victim Services Directory http://myfloridalegal.com/directory and whatever other resource looks relevant. The more people making these kind of requests though the faster there will be a response. |
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Again, I hope that more TOTVers will get involved with this. Gary Corsair a reporter for the Villages Daily Sun had done an article about my attempts to get this link to the Florida Victim Services Directory back in May of 2007. Lake County Library System did have a link for the Florida Victim Services Directory at that time but it disappeared sometime after that. I had been working pro bono and actually at my expense to get links to the Florida Victim Services Directory from all kinds of FL libraries since 2000. |
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Did get a response on Facebook from the Lake County Library System Facebook person.
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He/she passed on my suggestion. Will have to watch and see if anything happens. |
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If I were a survivor/victim of crime or someone looking for Lake County resources for the mentally ill, I would have a hard time using this. I would probably just use some kind of search engine like Google and hope for the best. I looked at the some of the Lake County city websites as well as the Lake County Sheriff's website and they do not have a link to the Florida Victim Services Directory nor one that would be quickly discernible as helping those with some kind of mental illness. http://www.cityofclermontfl.com/index.asp Lake County Sheriff's Office website-- https://www.lcso.org/ |
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Sumter County Sheriff's Office, Florida I looked at the Sumter County Sheriff's Office website today and did not find anything about the Florida Victim Services Directory nor anything about NAMI. http://www.nami.org/ Both resources that the Sheriff's Office IMHO should be actively engaged in making well known to the general public. |
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Sumter County Public Library website.
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They have a lot of very useful websites on this index linked above. I hope that TOTVers with help with getting more public awareness of the Florida Victim Services Directory and mental illness support groups like NAMI. They do seem connected especially considering many people who batter their significant others have some kind of anger and/or control issues that involve certain kinds of mental illnesses. Contact you local libraries and sheriff's offices websites about this matter. This seems like a worthwhile thing to do for other communities than the Villages and Central Florida as well. But other places will hopefully have something like the Florida Victim Services Directory. |
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How libraries near the Villages can be relevant.
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