Address Confidentiality Program Coordinator Karen Hall speaks at a roundtable discussion in Kalamazoo, Michigan talking about the first year of Michigan’s Address Confidentiality Program on September 16, 2024 | Photo: Anna Liz Nichols
More than 200 people seeking protection from domestic and sexual violence and stalking have been enrolled in Michigan’s Address Confidentiality Program to keep their addresses safe in the last year since the program began.
Survivors of violence have been able to vote, get library cards and enroll their children in school without their addresses becoming available to their abusers, Address Confidentiality Program (ACP) Program Coordinator Karen Hall said during a roundtable discussion at YWCA Kalamazoo Monday with Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel and domestic and sexual violence care providers from around the state.
Michigan launches address confidentiality program to protect violence survivors
“To say that this program is a way for people to hide — it is not,” Hall said. “Our participants are really grateful that this program exists because some of them have been in the shadows for so long and this program really gives them an opportunity to kind of step out into the light. So it is needed, and I’m grateful to be a part of it.”