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The Office of Domestic Violence is responsible for providing oversight on the administration of state and federally funded initiatives designed to intervene and prevent domestic violence and support survivors and their families. In collaboration with Florida's network of certified domestic violence service providers and partners, the Florida has established a coordinated, multidisciplinary approach to enhancing advocacy and improving the criminal justice system’s response to domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking crimes. 

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Media Guide for Professionals

In 2016, the Florida Attorney General’s Statewide Domestic Violence Fatality Review Team recommended the need to develop a domestic violence guide for media professionals (reporters, journalists and bloggers).

This media guide is intended to provide information from a perspective that:

  • dismantles the stigmas associated with victims of violence,
  • assigns blame for the violence solely to perpetrators,
  • deconstructs the myths surrounding domestic violence,
  • exposes the dynamics/warning signs present in these relationships; and
  • identifies local and state resources that members of the media can share with their audience, including survivors and/or worried family and friends.

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Domestic Violence Reports & Publications

  • Hotline Annual Reports
  • Domestic Violence Service Reports
  • Domestic Violence Annual Reports
  • Domestic Violence Needs Assessments
  • Capital Improvement
  • Capital Improvement Grant Awards
  • Statewide Domestic Violence Fatality Review

Complete Listing of Reports

Domestic Violence Statistics

Many more survivors of domestic violence are not reporting their abusers to the police or accessing services at domestic violence services due to reasons such as shame, fear, or being prevented from doing so by their abusers. For this reason, we may never know the true extent of abuse in our country and in our state.

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