August’s Webinar: Tribal Implications of the VAWA 2005-Firearms Amendment
Registration for August’s Webinar is now closed. Please find presentation materials below.
Topic: Tribal Implications of the VAWA 2005-Firearms Amendment
Date of Webinar: Wednesday, August 18, 2010
Time: 3:30 – 5:00 EST; 12:30 – 2:00 PST
Download Presentation PDF (by Fanny Haslebacher)
Download Presentation PDF (by Rob Valente)
Download Supplemental Materials PDF (by Rob Valente)
Download Presentation Audio (68MB MP3)
August’s Webinar will focus on “Violence Against Native Women and Firearms: The Law”. The goal of the August webinar is to provide Tribal Coalitions basic information on this subject that can be utilized in training and education efforts of coalitions for their membership and within tribal communities. Although a national summit was held in 2006 on “Domestic Violence and Firearms” training on this important subject is much needed within tribal communities and for tribal justice personnel. Speakers for the August webinar include Roberta “Rob” Valente and Fanny Haslebacher.
The agenda for the webinar is as follows:
1) Protection Orders and Firearms Prohibitions presented by Fanny Haslebacher, Office on Violence Against Women, USDOJ;
2) Law Enforcement Authority to Search for, Seize, and Return Firearms presented by Rob Valente, National Network to End Domestic Violence; and,
3) Discussion of the implications of the Firearm Amendments to the Violence Against Women Act of 2005 for American Indian tribes moderated by Jacqueline Agtuca.
Rob (Roberta) Valente, J.D. is General Counsel for the National Network to End Domestic Violence. She also serves as Senior Policy Advisor to the Domestic Violence Resource Network (the consortium of HHS-funded national Resource Centers on domestic violence) on policy issues in the domestic violence field, with specialized interests in protection order enforcement, child custody issues, federal laws and interventions addressing domestic violence, and tribal issues relating to domestic violence. From 2006 to 2008, she was Assistant Director of the Family Violence Department of the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges. Prior to that, she served as a consultant or advisor on civil legal issues regarding domestic violence for various organizations, including the Alaska Native Women’s Coalition, the National Congress of American Indians, and the Pennsylvania Coalition Against Domestic Violence. Ms. Valente served as one of the lead coordinators of the legislative work to develop the Violence Against Women Act of 2005. Ms. Valente has also served as Attorney Advisor to the Office on Violence Against Women of the U.S. Department of Justice. She was the founding Director of the American Bar Association Commission on Domestic Violence and, prior to that, worked for AYUDA, Inc., a legal services program for battered immigrants. She is the author of several articles on domestic violence issues and family law. She received her J.D. from the George Washington University School of Law in 1991, and is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia, Maryland, and before the Federal Circuit.
Fanny L. Haslebacher is an attorney detailed to the Office on Violence Against Women to provide legal advice to the Office of the Director from the FBI’s Office of the General Counsel where she has served as an Assistant General Counsel for over 10 years. She was selected for the detail due to her expertise regarding the Gun Control Act, the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act, the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), VAWA related issues such as human trafficking, immigration and the VAWA crimes such as cyberstalking, interstate violation of a protection order, and interstate domestic violence, as well as the criminal record and other information systems maintained by the FBI such as the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS), the Interstate Identification Index (III), and the National Crime Information Center 2000 (NCIC). Ms. Haslebacher recently received a Department of Justice Public Service Award for her work with the NCIC Protection Order File from the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of W.Va. Ms. Haslebacher served as the Senior Law Clerk to the Honorable Dennis R. Knapp, Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia. She received a BA (1975) in Chemistry and Political Science and a JD (1978) from West Virginia University.
