Passed in 2009, Senate Bill 233 » protects the constitutional rights of crime victims and established the Attorney General’s Task Force on Victims’ Rights Enforcement (AG Task Force).

AG Task Force Subcommittees

Four subcommittees of the Task Force meet regularly and report to the larger group:

1. Juvenile Justice Subcommittee
   • Promotes victims’ rights awareness in the juvenile justice system
   • Develops a best practices model for implementation
   • Creates educational training and practical tools for sustainability
2. Post-Conviction Subcommittee
   • Identifies crime victims’ rights in the post-conviction system
   • Develops a best practice model for implementation
   • Creates a training model for sustainability
3. System Practices Subcommittee
   • Ensures that victims’ rights will be clearly and consistently understood by crime victims
   • Ensures that crime victims have every opportunity to fully exercise their rights through a best practices model
4. Immigrant Crime Victims’ Rights Subcommittee
   • Ensures that foreign born victims of crime are informed of their rights
   • Identifies areas for improvement in system practices

For more information, please see a brief history of the Attorney General’s Task Force on Crime Victims’ Rights.

Contact the AG Task Force

Helen O’Brien, Crime Victims’ Rights Program Coordinator

Phone: 1-800-503-7983
Email: CVSSD@doj.oregon.gov

History of Crime Victims’ Rights Enforcement

Established in 2005, the Crime Victims’ Rights Advisory Committee’s goal was to “…develop a coordinated plan so that within the Oregon criminal justice system, crime victims’ rights will be clearly and consistently understood by crime victims, and crime victims will have every opportunity to fully exercise their rights—every crime victim, every right, every case, every time.”

Four years later, the Attorney General’s Task Force on Victims’ Rights Enforcement (AG Task Force) was established.

Historic Workgroups

1. Noncompliance Response
   Mission: Develop ways to report, review, and resolve noncompliance of victims’ rights through a non-judicial model.
2. Training
   Mission: Develop a comprehensive and viable plan for implementation and enforcement of victims’ rights through a fully accessible training design.
3. Research and Evaluation
   Mission: Measure the implementation of and compliance with crime victims’ rights in the justice system through ongoing data collection and evaluation.
4. Restitution Reform
   Mission: Identify and recommend models of restitution assessment, collection, and distribution for system improvement.
5. Victim Awareness
   Mission: To ensure that crime victims’ rights are clearly and consistently understood by all victims of crime and to identify means of communicating these rights throughout the state.
6. Immigrant Crime Victims’ Rights
   Mission: Ensure foreign born victims of crime are informed of their rights and to identify areas for improvement in system practices.
7. Juvenile Justice
   Mission: Identify crime victims’ rights in the juvenile justice system, develop a best practices model for implementation, and create a training model for sustainability.
8. System Practices
   Mission: Ensure victims’ rights will be clearly and consistently understood by crime victims and that crime victims have every opportunity to fully exercise their rights through a best practices model.