Posted: Mar 19, 2010 10:11 PM EDT
Updated: Mar 20, 2010 1:32 AM EDT
AMARILLO, TEXAS - Area leaders are hoping to reduce a growing crime by kicking off a new action plan.
In 2008, one hundred and 36 women were killed in Texas during a domestic violence fight -- three of those came from our area.
To try to keep deaths like this from happening again, this regional group of the Texas Council on Family Violence vows to make a new idea reality. They want to start fatality review boards - where after horrific act like this happens, all the key players sit down to have candid conversations about why the death wasn't prevented and what else if anything could have been done.
The region already has a child fatality review board that could serve as a model for the same thing done with adults. State law requires that if these groups are created, they have to be done on the county level with approval from the commissioners court.
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