San Diego | Like Lizbeth, who is a survivor of domestic violence in San Diego, there are 60,000 cases of domestic violence on both sides of the border. A situation that has led two countries to join forces to combat crime that knows no borders.
San Diego County District Attorney Summer Stephan announced Friday the start of a historic partnership with the Baja California State Attorney General’s Office, the Baja California State Women’s Justice Center, and One Safe Place: The North County Family Justice Center to combat crime through a broader communication network between both nations. Human trafficking and domestic violence crimes top the list of crimes that violate women and men in both nations.
This morning, the Memorandum of Understanding with the Mexican Consulate in San Diego was also renewed. This document formalizes the parameters for sharing information and thus streamlining criminal prosecutions involving binational entities. Among the strategies that have been of great help in locating cases of domestic violence is the “community coffee” event that takes place at One Safe Place in the north of the county. A new family justice center will soon open in the south of San Diego, which will serve a large part of the Latino community that lives in that region.
In Baja California, both the Attorney General, Maria Elena Andrade, and the General Director of the Center for Justice for Women of the State of Baja California, Magdalena Bautista Ramírez, committed themselves through this agreement to collaborate and work hand in hand with the authorities of San Diego to resolve cross-border crimes.
A historic alliance led by women that aims to eradicate crime in the region.
