More than 111,000 domestic violence crimes were reported in the sunshine state in 2011 according to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement and experts say that’s just a fraction of the real number because so many go unreported.
We’ll talk with Lucy Ortiz who manages the Shelter for Abused Women & Children’s Immokalee Outreach Center about the history of the domestic violence movement, her work advocating on behalf of battered women and her recent trip to Washington D.C. where she attended a ceremony for President Obama’s signing of the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act
