§ 631-A — Crime victim service programs

§ 631-a. Crime victim service programs. 1. The office shall make\ngrants, within amounts appropriated for that purpose, for crime victim\nservice programs to provide services to crime victims and witnesses.\nThese programs shall be operated at the community level by\nnot-for-profit organizations, by agencies of local government or by any\ncombination thereof. Crime victim service programs may be designed to\nserve crime victims and witnesses in general in a particular community,\nor may be designed to serve a category of persons with special needs\nrelating to a particular kind of crime.\n 2. The director shall promulgate regulations, relating to these\ngrants, including guidelines for its determinations.\n (a) These regulations shall be designed to promote:\n (i) alternative funding sources other than the state, including local\ngovernment and private sources;\n (ii) coordination of public and private efforts to aid crime victims;\nand\n (iii) long range development of services to all victims of crime in\nthe community and to all victims and witnesses involved in criminal\nprosecutions.\n (b) These regulations shall also provide for services including, but\nnot limited to:\n (i) assistance to claimants seeking crime victims compensation\nbenefits;\n (ii) referrals, crisis intervention and other counseling services;\n (iii) services to elderly victims and to child victims and their\nfamilies;\n (iv) transportation and household assistance;\n (v) outreach to the community and education and training of law\nenforcement and other criminal justice officials to the needs of crime\nvictims; and\n (vi) services to victims of a mass shooting as defined in subdivision\neleven of section eight hundred thirty-five of this chapter or of a\nshooting incident in which four or more people are injured.\n