Video & Transcript Research : 'victims' rights'

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TX

Texas 89th Regular

Criminal Jurisprudence Apr 1st, 2025

Criminal Jurisprudence

Transcript Highlights:
  • TDCJ has stated that under current law, the Victims' Bill of Rights entitles a victim to no and an...
  • So right now the crime victims compensation program, it helps victims and their families cover immediate
  • It grants the victim the right to be informed that the prosecutor does not represent the victim, the
  • times, they've never been a victim, right?
  • There's a rape victim, right? So you may not be thinking straight, right?
AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama House Judiciary Committee Apr 23rd, 2025

Judiciary

Transcript Highlights:
  • All right, let's just talk about the amendment right now.
  • wanted right then.
  • We all right.
  • Right.
  • I want to get it right. I don't want to get it now. I want to get it right." I hear you.
Bills: HB265, HB146, SB254, HB202, HB3, HB42, SB18
AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama Senate Judiciary Committee Apr 23rd, 2025

Judiciary

Transcript Highlights:
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  • I think you're right. Senator right? I think you're right. Senator right? I think you're right.
  • Right out there stopped right out there. Right out there stopped right out there.
  • All right. Uh no opposition using All right. Uh no opposition using All right.
Bills: HB265, HB146, SB254, HB202, HB3, HB42, SB18
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Transcript Highlights:
  • You are recognized for follow Thank you, and you're right. I wasn't looking at the PCS.
  • Right now, we just talk about the total value of the individual value of the scholarship, and we talk
  • Right, giving you filling your time. Representative Caldwell with seven aye's and two nays.
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

03/25/2026 - House Appropriations

Appropriations

Transcript Highlights:
  • It was Equifax and VersaTerm over who was going to provide victims' rights notification.
  • VersaTerm does victims' rights for... ...provide victims' rights notice.
  • First of Turn does victims' rights for police departments; Equifax does more victims' rights through
  • It was Equifax and VersaTerm over who is going to provide victims' rights. Notification.
  • VersaTerm does victims' rights for... provide victims rights notice first of turn does victims rights
Summary: The Appropriations Committee met on March 25 for what was described as its last regular meeting, with a possible special meeting tentatively planned for the following Tuesday. The committee first took up Senate Bill 1112, as amended by a strike-everything amendment that would appropriate $1 million from the Special Services Fund in FY2027 to the Arizona Department of Corrections for holistic, studio-based rehabilitative programming, with a required report due by June 30, 2028 on spending and outcomes such as self-harm, discipline, and recidivism. Testimony from the founder of Art of Our Soul and a formerly incarcerated peer facilitator emphasized trauma-informed art and music therapy, reductions in disciplinary violations and self-harm, and benefits for both incarcerated people and staff. The committee adopted the amendment and then gave SB 1112 a do-pass recommendation. The committee then heard Senate Bill 1776, which would allow urban Indian organizations to provide traditional healing services reimbursable through AHCCCS or the Arizona Long-Term Care System. The sponsor said the bill was intended to align Arizona with federal approval and other states’ models. AHCCCS testified neutral but said the bill would require a waiver change, likely at standard FMAP rather than 100%, and estimated a $1.3 million general fund impact; the chair said a COW amendment and fiscal note were needed. Members raised concerns about cost and access, and the sponsor clarified the bill was meant for American Indians and family members served through IHS-related facilities. The committee ultimately passed the bill out with a do-pass recommendation, though several members voted no or present over funding concerns. Senate Bill 1537, which would rename the Peace Officer Training Equipment Fund as the Public Safety De-escalation and Life Safety Fund and repeal an inactive advisory commission, failed after testimony from a legislative liaison explaining the fund’s history and use for equipment and de-escalation tools. Some members supported the cleanup, but others objected after the Arizona Police Association opposed the change and argued the commission should be reformed rather than repealed. The committee then considered Senate Bill 1584, as amended, which would provide $1 million for Department of Corrections recruitment and training, funded instead from the Peace Officer Training Equipment Fund. Testimony supported the need to address DOC staffing shortages, but some members objected that the fund was restricted to peace officer equipment; the committee adopted the amendment and passed the bill out. Finally, the committee heard Senate Bill 1673, which would fund the law enforcement crime victim notification system. A chair amendment shifted the source from the general fund to the victim compensation fund and reduced the amount to about $2.5 million. Testimony from the Arizona Sheriffs Association, a vendor, and the City of Phoenix described the notification system as constitutionally required, widely used, and important for victim safety and communication, but several members argued the amendment would take money from victim compensation and “rob Peter to pay Paul.” The committee adopted the amendment and then gave SB 1673, as amended, a do-pass recommendation. The chair closed by noting the committee was adjourned and that a special meeting might be posted for the following week.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Public Safety Finance and Policy Committee 3/18/25

Public Safety Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
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  • She said their main goal is to make sure that victims' rights are realized under Minnesota Statutes,
  • All right.
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MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

Judiciary Committee Meeting - 2026-03-25

Judiciary Finance and Civil Law

Transcript Highlights:
  • House File 3825 makes a few technical corrections and enhances crime victim rights by ensuring victims
  • first and then the crime victim rights. first and then the crime victim rights.
  • The final two provisions are related to crime victim rights.
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AL

Alabama 2026 1st Special Session

Alabama House Health Committee Feb 4th, 2026

Health

Transcript Highlights:
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Bills: HB146, HB276
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Criminal Jurisprudence Apr 22nd, 2025

Criminal Jurisprudence

Transcript Highlights:
  • All right. Thank you. Oh, wait. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 2, 1, 2, 3. Um, well, hold on just a second.
  • Louderback voted against the bill, right? Here's the thing.
  • All right. Representative Money? All right. Representative Moody? Representative Rodríguez-Ramos?
  • All right. So, Mr.
  • That's not ours though, right? That wasn't in our subcommittee, right? This wasn't in ours. Mm-hmm.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Criminal Jurisprudence Apr 22nd, 2025

Criminal Jurisprudence

Transcript Highlights:
  • You know, has heard testimony before today that really has focused on victims' rights as well.
  • For the victim, right? They're the complaining witness in the case. Would you agree? I would agree.
  • Like, right? The only victim is not always the victim of a crime.
  • Additionally, under this bill, a victim would have the right to inform the...
  • Victims have the right to be notified and to share their views with the court.
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

03/18/2026 - House Judiciary

Judiciary

Transcript Highlights:
  • I'm a full-time designated victims' rights attorney working at a nonprofit law firm.
  • She is the victim that has been down here fighting for victims' rights.
  • When she was 12 years old, ...fighting for victims' rights.
  • The Arizona Bill of Victims' Rights already guarantees victims' standing, participation rights, and the
  • The Arizona Bill of Victims' Rights already guarantees victims' standing, participation rights, and the
Summary: The committee heard and advanced several bills dealing with criminal justice, victims’ rights, education funding, and public safety. SB 1094, which would create a civil cause of action for minors who received irreversible gender reassignment surgery in violation of Arizona law, drew extensive testimony. Supporters argued it would provide compensation for harmed minors and extend accountability similar to sexual abuse cases; opponents said it was discriminatory, targeted transgender people and providers, and interfered with informed consent and parental decision-making. The committee voted 6-3 to give SB 1094 a do pass recommendation. SB 1635, which creates the offense of unlawfully alerting someone to an imminent arrest, also passed 6-3 after strong debate. The sponsor said it was intended to stop people from warning specific targets of arrest, including in immigration enforcement and other criminal cases, while preserving First Amendment protections for general alerts. Opponents, including the ACLU and community members, argued the bill criminalized speech, was overbroad, and duplicated existing obstruction laws. SB 1673, appropriating money for the crime victim notification fund, passed unanimously after an amendment increasing the appropriation from $5 million to $8.2 million was adopted. The committee also approved SB 1092, which bars early termination of probation for dangerous crimes against children, after testimony from victims’ advocates and defense-side witnesses about probation, online evidence, and the risk of re-victimizing survivors. SB 1239, extending the statute of limitations for failure to register as a sex offender, passed 6-4 despite arguments that registration is already continuously monitored and that the bill could create redundant liability. SB 1139, a strike-everything bill requiring GPS monitoring for registered sex offenders without a permanent residence, failed after members noted existing monitoring systems already cover many offenders. Later, SB 1502, increasing penalties for unlawful flight when accompanied by aggravating danger, passed 5-1 amid concerns about over-criminalization and possible impacts on drivers trying to pull over safely. Additional measures included SB 1248, clarifying county use of accommodation schools for juvenile detention and jail education programs, which passed unanimously, and SB 1240, excluding dangerous-crime-against-children probationers from county probation incentive calculations, which passed 5-4 over objections that it would undermine rehabilitation incentives. SB 1669, changing rape-shield evidence rules to focus on physical injury, passed 6-3 after a dispute over whether the bill would narrow or clarify admissible evidence. The committee then began hearing SB 1540, a new offense targeting fuel dispenser theft and manipulation devices, with the petroleum industry describing organized gas theft schemes and the sponsor’s amendment removing mere possession of a device from the criminal statute.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Criminal Jurisprudence Apr 29th, 2025

Criminal Jurisprudence

Transcript Highlights:
  • I am open to questions, and I reserve the right to close.
  • I sometimes work with victims' rights to help navigate them through the criminal justice system.
  • Reserve the right to close.
  • You're not allowed to shoot at the police, right?
  • Is that right? I was, we just started talking. All right, we got to talk; I started.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Criminal Jurisprudence Apr 29th, 2025

Criminal Jurisprudence

Transcript Highlights:
  • Right.
  • Right, but you still... We're retrying it starting Monday, right? We are.
  • I represent an organization called Knife Rights.
  • Our indigent folks need the same rights.
  • All right. Thanks. Thank you.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence Mar 12th, 2025

Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence

Transcript Highlights:
  • Up to the right business judgment.
  • So right now...
  • of action so that the victims of these crimes can be made whole, right?
  • All right, go ahead. All right, thank you very much, Chairman.
  • Right, yours do not, but they could. If they weren't bound by your rules, right?
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence Mar 12th, 2025

Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence

Transcript Highlights:
  • All right. We have two kinds of evictions here, right?
  • You're right. You're right. I apologize.
  • rights.
  • Constitutional right, fundamental constitutional right of all citizens who have the right to appeals
  • Okay, did I say it right? Yes, you said it right.
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Appropriations and Budget Judiciary Subcommittee Apr 6th, 2026 at 11:00 am

A&B Judiciary Subcommittee

Transcript Highlights:
  • Members, this is a pilot program with the Attorney General's Office concerning victims of human trafficking
Bills: SB1379