ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Albuquerque city leaders announced an expansion of the S.A.F.E at Work domestic violence campaign. Mayor Tim Keller said statistics show work can be a safe environment, giving victims an opportunity to report abuse without fear. “In the end, the victim, typically, not always, may have a place to go to work. That place usually includes people who don’t know the potential perpetrator; it also includes physical separation, so that person is not in the same room as the perpetrator, all of these things I outlined that are such challenges with domestic violence, actually don’t exist in the workplace,” said Mayor Keller.
The mayor is expanding S.A.F.E at Work to the Bernalillo County District Attorney’s Office and the Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Office. Mayor Keller hopes to expand the program to government offices across the city…