D.A.s Choose to Continue Victim Notification Program

Matt Chandler

NMPolitics - The state’s district attorneys have agreed to take a company that provides a victim notification system up on its offer to continue the service for two months for free while they seek other funding to keep the system going. District Attorneys Matt Chandler from Clovis and Amy Orlando from Las Cruces confirmed that they and their colleagues reversed an earlier decision to shut down part of the system.

Amy Orlando

As NMPolitics.net reported on Thursday, district attorneys were scrambling to save the VINE, or Victim Information and Notification Everyday, system, which provides automated notification to victims and others about defendants’ incarceration status and court hearings. Earlier this year, Gov. Susana Martinez pocket vetoed a funding bill she said was flawed. Read full story here: News New Mexico

D.A.s Choose to Continue Victim Notification Program