Office of the Mayor

Proclamation

Lawrence, Kansas

WHEREAS:   We as a Nation recognize crime victims’ suffering, struggles, and loss, and value them as our family members and friends, neighbors and co-workers who have been harmed by crime; and

WHEREAS:   We as individuals and communities value core rights for crime victims that allow them to participate in justice processes with rights to information, protections, restitution, and to be heard; and

WHEREAS:   We value those among us who work on behalf of crime victims to not only improve rights, services and treatment of victims of crime, but to also build a better and more just community and country; and

WHEREAS:   America has joined together annually for the past 24 years to recognize the needs and rights of crime victims and survivors; and

WHEREAS:   Lawrence, Kansas proclaims the week of April 18 to 24, 2004 to be Crime Victims’ Rights Week, and honors crime victims and those who serve them during this week and throughout the year.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, Mike Rundle, Mayor of the City of Lawrence, Kansas, do hereby proclaim the week of April 18-24, 2004 as

“Crime Victims’ Rights Week”

in Lawrence, Kansas.

                                                                   Mike Rundle, Mayor

April 13, 2004