Whitney Bostick, Juneau's newly appointed district attorney, shares her experience working with domestic violence victims and outlines her strategies for tackling the issue of pretrial delays in the court system.
Bostick grew up in Palmer and previously worked in the Anchorage district attorney’s office and as a private attorney, often representing domestic violence victims. The Juneau district attorney serves northern Southeast communities between Wrangell and Yakutat., pretrial delays across the state are creating a backlog for the court system . Bostick sat down with KTOO to discuss her background and plans to address these delays.
And that work with the domestic violence victims that I had when I was in private practice just kind of kept pulling me to wanting to do more to help them. So that’s when I started looking into switching to do prosecution and working for the State.Sometimes it happens that different offices need help, staffing-wise, for various reasons. And in December of 2023, I had volunteered to come down to help for two weeks, for a two week period.
And it took some time for me, personally to like, one, see the ability myself to have this role, once I had the time to think about it, then I was like, “I can’t not apply.” And I felt like the group of people that I’d be working with here, I felt like I was doing them a disservice by not applying.
Because we don’t want that. Ultimately, we want them to feel like they can always come back and say, you know, go report to law enforcement or come to us and talk about what they’ve experienced.I switched to doing public service and working for the government because I wanted to serve the communities that I live in, and it’s been an honor to be selected for this position.
LAW JUSTICE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE PRETRIAL DELAYS COURT SYSTEM VICTIM SUPPORT DISTRICT ATTORNEY
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