Ensuring Privacy of Victims and Survivors

Steps need to be taken to ensure that information about the location of victims and survivors remains confidential. Contact with victims should only be made by prosecutors or victims' advocates. Addresses and phone numbers of victims and survivors should not be provided to the defendant's counsel or other representatives and should not be included in court documents.

Victims and survivors should be reminded of their right to refuse media interviews.

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