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Dominique Grant on Georgia’s new Survivor Justice Act

June 17, 2025

Dominique Grant (Leading with Conviction™ 2024), Campaign and Operations Manager at Women on the Rise, writes in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution:

“In Georgia and across this country, Black women survivors of domestic violence are often invisible until we are put on trial, either in the criminal legal system or in the court of public opinion.

“The Georgia Survivor Justice Act (HB 582), enacted in May, is a necessary step to correcting that injustice by bringing context into the courtroom in allowing judges to consider evidence of abuse when sentencing survivors who have committed offenses because of their trauma.”

Read the full op-ed at AJC.com.

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