Representatives from the state’s Corrections and Parole Board Office of Victim Services will be in Savannah Sept. 19 to meet with crime victims or family members to discuss individual cases.
The event, 2013 Victim Visitor’s Day, will be held beginning at 9 a.m. at the Coastal Georgia Center, 305 Fahm St., with appointments between 10 a.m. and 7 p.m.
Crime victims and their families will be able to discuss their offender’s case and speak confidentially with a representative from the pardons and parole board.
Cheryl Rogers, director of the Chatham County District Attorney’s Victim Witness Assistance Program and co-sponosor, said such opportunities are “extremely rare” and last occurred in 2006.
“It is the goal of the (local victim-witness program) to continue to give victims a voice that this event allows the parole board a chance to hear the impact that crimes have on victim long after their court cases have ended.”
via Pardons and Paroles reps to meet victims in Savannah Sept. 19 | savannahnow.com.
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