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Delaware

Delaware Victim Assistance
302-577-3697

Delaware Victim Compensation
302-995-8383

Unlike crime victims in thirty-one other states, crime victims in Delaware have no constitutional rights.

As of April, 2000, the National Center for Victims of Crime has not received any information regarding the introduction of a crime victims' rights constitutional amendment in the Delaware legislature.

District of Columbia (DC)

District of Columbia Victim Assistance
202-842-8467

District of Columbia Victim Compensation
202-879-4216

National Organization for Victim Assistance [NOVA]
1757 Park Road, N. W.
Washington D. C. 20010
(202) 232-6682 232-NOVA
Fax: (202) 462-2255

Unlike crime victims in thirty-one states, crime victims in the District of Columbia have no constitutional rights. Crime victims in the District of Columbia will only obtain constitutional rights when those rights are included in the U.S. constitution.

Florida

Florida Victim Assistance
850-414-3300

Florida Victim Compensation
850-414-3300

Florida does have a constitutional amendment that includes rights for crime victims. It was passed in 1987. This amendment reads as follows:

RIGHTS OF ACCUSED AND OF VICTIMS.

(a) [pertains to rights of the accused]

(b) Victims of crime or their lawful representatives, including the next of kin of homicide victims, are entitled to the right to be informed, to be present, and to be heard when relevant, at all crucial stages of criminal proceedings, to the extent that these rights do not interfere with the constitutional rights of the accused.

Georgia

Unlike crime victims in thirty-one other states, crime victims in Georgia have no constitutional rights.

Constitutional amendments to provide victims' rights have been introduced, but have not progressed through the legislature.

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