In this episode of Reckoning, Kathryn Kosmides speaks with Sheri Kurdakul about collecting evidence, survivor accountability, and abuser accountability. Sheri is the founder and CEO of VictimsVoice which is a domestic violence documentation tool that meets the strict legal standards of court admissibility and is built to meet HIPAA, VAWA, FVPSA, VOCA, and GDPR regulatory standards for privacy and security.
In this episode, Sheri discusses:
- How her then ten year old daughter inspired Sheri to create the domestic violence documentation tool, VictimsVoice
- The importance of documenting domestic violence evidence in a way that is legally permissible
- The complexity of evidence documentation laws varying from state to state
- When people typically get protection orders
- What encompasses domestic violence as it’s not only between intimate partners
- Healing for herself and other domestic violence survivors
- The complexities of the American criminal justice system and how it decentralizes domestic violence survivors
