New Mexico Victim’s Rights Project Newsletter June – July 2024 Edition
New Mexico Victim’s Rights Project Newsletter April – May 2024 Edition
The New Mexico Victim’s Rights Project newsletter aims to keep the community informed about the latest news, resources, and developments in protecting and enforcing victim’s rights.
Making Victims Rights Meaningful: Representing Victims in Criminal Courts
The New Mexico Victim’s Rights Project will be providing a Continuing Legal Education (CLE) course for New Mexico attorneys. For more information email us at info@victimsrightsnm.org. We plan to provide this course on a regular basis, and the next course will be on April 12, 2024. This course will cover New Mexico Constitutional and Statutory Rights of crime victims in the criminal justice system.
Date: April 12, 2024
Time: 9:00 to 11:15 a.m.
Location for In person: 6739 Academy Rd NE, Albuquerque, NM 87109
Virtual: Zoom link will be sent once registered
Fee: $75.00
Course Title: Making Victim’s Rights Meaningful: Representing Victims in Criminal Courts
Course Provided by: DWI Resource Center/NM Victim’s Rights Project
Faculty: Carolyn Callaway, Victim’s Rights Attorney
Linda Atkinson, Executive Director, NM Victim’s Rights Project
This course will be for 1.5 General and .5 Ethics CLE’s
Course ID: 224652_17103
‘We stand with the victims’: The Navajo Nation has a sweeping new victim’s rights law
Law Enforcement Statutory Requirements
31-26-8. Procedures for providing victims with preliminary information; law enforcement agencies.
The law enforcement agency that investigates a criminal offense shall:
A. inform the victim of medical services and crisis intervention services available to victims;
B. provide the victim with the police report number for the criminal offense and a copy of the following
statement: “If within thirty days you are not notified of an arrest in your case, you may call (telephone
number for the law enforcement agency) to obtain information on the status of your case.”; and
C. provide the victim with the name of the district attorney for the judicial district in which the criminal
offense was committed and the address and telephone number for that district attorney’s office.
History: Laws 1994, ch. 144, §8.
