Roundtable: Five Years After Passage, How is the Crime
Victims' Rights Act Working?
Facilitated by Terry Campos, JD, Staff Attorney, NCVLI
This facilitated roundtable will discuss the complex realities of affording victims their rights throughout investigation and prosecution of child pornography cases in the age of digital images and the internet. The discussion will focus on the practical challenges to affording victim’s rights in these complex cases. The goal of the discussion will be to identify promising practices to ensure that offenders are brought to justice while also protecting individual victims. Participants will include representatives from law enforcement, prosecution, victims’ rights attorneys and advocates, and others. This roundtable is geared toward attorneys, advocates, and criminal justice practitioners with moderate knowledge of crime victims’ rights.
Terry Campos is a staff attorney with the National Crime Victim Law Institute. Prior to joining NCVLI, Ms. Campos was an appellate attorney with the Office of the State Appellate Defender (OSAD) in Chicago, Illinois. During her time at OSAD, Ms. Campos represented indigent persons on appeal in criminal cases. Ms. Campos interned for the Metropolitan Public Defender in Portland, Oregon. Ms. Campos has a B.S. in Wildlife Ecology from the University of Florida and a J.D. from the Northwestern School of Law at Lewis & Clark College with a certificate in Criminal law.
This conference is supported by Grant No. 2008-DD-BX-K001 awarded by the Office for Victims of Crime, Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice. Points of view in this document are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official position or policies of the U.S. Department of Justice.
