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Among the Biden-Harris administration's initiatives will be a
resource center run by the Department of Justice to help law
enforcement, attorneys and victims service organizations respond
to cyber crimes like revenge porn and online stalking, White
House Gender Policy Council head Jennifer Klein told reporters.
The Department of Justice will also expand technical assistance
for local law enforcement to remove firearms from domestic
abusers, and it will announce more than $690 million in fiscal
year 2024 grant funding for programs to help communities address
gender-based violence, she said.
Klein said the administration would also establish an office of
gender-based violence through the Department of Housing and
Urban Development to help meet domestic violence survivors'
housing and economic needs.
Biden was scheduled to speak to survivors and advocates at the
White House on Thursday evening ahead of the Violence Against
Women Act's 30th anniversary.
He helped craft the 1994 legislation, which criminalized
physical abuse against women at the federal level and provided
government funding for victim services, advocate training,
shelters and prevention education.
The law expired under President Donald Trump in 2019. Biden
signed a spending bill that renewed the legislation in 2022.
(Reporting by Gabriella Borter; Editing by Stephen Coates)
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