recommendationsWe the members of the Santa Clara County Domestic Violence Death Review Committee hereby recommend to the Domestic Violence Council and the community at large the following, that
1. The Domestic Violence Council encourages the community at large to stand up and report domestic violence when it is observed.
2. The Domestic Violence Council continues its efforts to educate the public on domestic violence issues, including the release of this report to the public.
3. The Domestic Violence Council increases its efforts to educate our ethnic minorities and immigrant communities on domestic violence.
4. The Domestic Violence Council continues to ensure that all domestic violence-related educational information teach that domestic violence occurs in the elder, immigrant, gay, lesbian, bi-sexual, and transgender communities.
5. The Domestic Violence Council continues to encourage local school districts to develop a curriculum that addresses the issues of domestic violence, dating violence and stalking.
6. The Domestic Violence Council continues to encourage victims of domestic violence to get restraining orders.
7. The Domestic Violence Council continues to promote the education of all workplaces on domestic violence, so those potential victims can be protected.
8. The Domestic Violence Council promotes legislation, which requires all mental health professionals to have domestic violence education.
9. The Domestic Violence Council promotes the addition of services for male victims of domestic violence.
10. The Domestic Violence Council continues to encourage the utilization of available monies for mental health services for children exposed to domestic violence.
11. The Domestic Violence Council continues to encourage parents to get parenting classes, which discuses the impact of domestic violence on children.
12. The Domestic Violence Council continues to inform the public that the police at a domestic violence incident (Penal Code Section 12028.5) can remove all guns and keep them for up to 5 days if charges are not filed. If charges are filed and the perpetrator is convicted he/she cannot possess a firearm for up to 10 years (Penal Code Section 12021). Also if the victim obtains a restraining order (whether or not the perpetrator is filed on or convicted), the retrained person cannot possess a firearm.
The DVDRC recognizes that the lower number of domestic violence related this year (6 as compared to 21 in 2003), are a clear indication that we must continue to do all of the above.
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