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Monday, October 4,1993
Activists Urge Adoption of Mandatory Victim Notification Policies
BY JENNY HEINZEN
STAFF WWTER
Victims’-rights activists have joined to
gether in a call for legislation that would
require state law enforcement officials to
notify a victim of a violent crime when his
or her assailant is released from prison.
“It’s important because it is a key to
other rights,” said David Beatty, director
of public affairs for the Virginia-based
National Victim Center. “Victims are al
lowed to come in and testify before the
parole boards in many states during parole
hearings. They can’t do this if they don’t
know about them.”
North Carolina already has enacted a
law concerning notification of the release
COMMUNITY
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said that although the center was a good
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take some time to help this community
because there is such a variety of people.”
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of certain prisoners, said Greg Rideout,
spokesman for theN.C. Attorney General’s
office. But the law makes no mention of
notifying the assailant’s victim, he said.
“Legislation passed by the N.C. Gen
eral Assembly two years ago stated that
local district attorneys must be notified
when perpetrators of class G crimes be
come eligible for parole," he said.
Class G crimes include murder, rape
and assault with intent to kill, he said.
Rideout said the N.C. law stipulated
that a victim must indicate in a written
request that he or she wanted to know the
date of a violent criminal’s parole hearing.
But national victims’-rights organiza
tions claim this is not enough. They have
demanded that notifying victims or their
The center probably will not deter drug
dealers, he said, adding that the commu
nity only would improve if the neighbor
hood pulled together. “People who want
(something) positive will lmow that the
center is a place where they can come.”
Many of the center’s programs still are
being planned. Kinnaird said she would
like to see the center provide children with
a safe environment where they can do
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surviving families of an assailant’s parole
be mandatory.
Beatty said he thought North Carolina
should choose to enact either a mandatory
notification policy or the opt-out system,
which would entail notification unless the
victim specifically requested otherwise.
“Asa practical matter, safety is a major
concern," he said. “Victims want to know
because the offender represents an ongo
ing threat.”
He said the mandatory notification
policy was used by 11 states, including
Arkansas, Kansas, Louisiana, Maryland,
Massachusetts, Mississippi, Nebraska,
New Mexico, North Dakota, Tennessee
and Wisconsin.
Rideout said the point of pushing for
homework. “Parents of children told me
that their children couldn’t get off the bus
without being surrounded by drug deal
ers,” she said.
UNC’s fraternity and sorority members
can be involved in the center to serve as
role models forthe children, she said. “The
success of Can Court Community Center
depends in part on the students from the
University.”
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victim-notification laws was to prevent vic
tims from suffering again.
“Victims and people in general want to
be protected from the violent crimes that
happen in their communities,” he said.
Patty McQuillan, director of public in
formation for the N.C. Department of
Correction, said she thought financial con
straints and prison overcrowding had pre
vented most state legislatures from adopt
ing the policy.
“Any extra duties or responsibilities
would be paid for by taxpayers,” she said.
“I don’t know how many people would
have to be hired for that because it would
definitely require additional staff.”
Prison overcrowding could be the big
gest influence on legislative decisions con
NIKE
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said. “(Other coaches) see what Carolina’s
making, and they want more.”
The disclosure also embarrasses coaches
who receive a portion of the contract, he
said.
Swofford said Saturday that Smith’s
basketball team had led the way for the
new contract.
.“I think to some degree we’re breaking
new ground here,” he said. “This is the first
time at this institution that the interest in
one sport has been parlayed to the entire
athletic department.”
Smith said he would distribute his an
nual $300,000 Nike salary among assistant
coaches and staff and to a fund that helps
former UNC players.
According to die agreement, the break
down for the yearly payment is as follows:
■ Assistant coaches: $135,000.
■ Office staff, auxiliary staff and trainer:
ceming anew policy, she added.
McQuillan said North Carolina’s prison
caps, which force officials to release pris
oners to prevent overcrowding, couldbring
the number of prisoners eligible for parole
hearings to 700 per week.
If five people must be notified for each
violent criminal who faced parole, “itwould
become quite a big operation,” she said.
Beatty said that although additional staff
could be required, the government had a
responsibility to guarantee victims’ basic
rights.
He added that hundreds of thousands of
dollars were spent each year to protect the
rights of offenders. “Relative to this, the
cost is small—the price of a phone call or
a piece of stationery and a stamp.”
$65,000.
■ Television and radio show host:
$30,000.
■ Coaching consultants to Smith:
$25,000.
■ “General purposes such as providing
assistance to former players and families,
with the remainder to the Dean E. Smith
Academic Scholarship Fund”: $45,000.
Nike also will make a one-time pay
ment of $500,000 to Smith. He said Satur
day that he planned to donate the money to
various charities, but he would not say
which ones. “I don’t have to say,” he said.
“It’s going to me.”
Under the contract, Nike also will do
nate SIOO,OOO in Smith’s name to UNC
CH’sßicentennial Campaign. Smith origi
nally planned to give the money himself,
but he decided to have Nike donate it to
avoid taxes on the gift, he said.
The athletic department also can look
forward to a big payoff. Nike will pay the
department $420,000 over the course of
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talk to the White House to find out their
plans.”
Hardin said he saw the symmetry in
having Clinton succeed Kennedy as a presi
dential University Day speaker.
“As it is well known, President Kennedy
has been a hero and role model of Presi
dent Clinton for a long time,” the chancel
lor said.
Kennedy spoke in 1961 about what role
anew generation of college graduates
would have in the United States:
“I ask you to give to the service of our
country the critical faculty which society
has helped develop in you here. I ask you
to decide, as Goethe put it, whether you
will be an anvil or a hammer; whether you
will give the world in which you were
reared and educated the broadest possible
benefits of that education.”
the contract. Swofford said the money
would go to women’s teams and academic
support programs for athletes.
Swofford said side agreements with
other UNC coaches still were being nego
tiated. Nike is negotiating with head foot
ball coach Mack Brown, head baseball
coach Mike Roberts, women’s head bas
ketball coach Sylvia Hatchell and head
track and field coach Dennis Craddock,
Swofford said.
The University will benefit from a li
censing agreement included in the con
tract, Swofford said. Nike will be able to
use University trademarks on clothing, but
it will have to pay the same fee that other
licensees do.
“The licensing moneys that come into
the University should increase significantly
with this agreement,” Swofford said.
The 24 varsity teams will receive at least
1,908 shoes in the first season of the con
tract. The package also includes at least
443 travel bags and 616 pairs of socks.