Gen. Clark was a guest speaker at the meeting and addressed the topic of financial exploitation of the elderly from a prosecutorial perspective.
“We are just beginning to scratch the surface on this issue, but the taskforce is taking the right steps to be able to appropriately identify and respond to these types of issues,” Gen. Clark said. “We need to increase the public’s awareness on the ease of reporting this issue and the requirement to report this issue, and that there is a remedy once it is reported.”
Zavogiannis was voted by her fellow district attorneys to serve on the Elder Abuse Task Force, which focuses on the matter of financial exploitation and works to provide a report to the governor and General Assembly on the impact of financial exploitation and legislative solutions to the issue. More recently, she was elected by the task force members to serve as president, according to a release.
“Our goal, first and foremost, is to protect our state’s elderly population and to make sure they have access to resources and support should they feel taken advantage of or unsafe,” Zavogiannis said. “A key element to this is response time. Creating a faster and more efficient way for authorities to be alerted to a situation can allow for more time to ensure the appropriate courses of action are being taken.”
More information about the District Attorneys’ efforts to combat elder abuse can be found at https://www.tndagc.org/programs/elder-abuse/.
About TNDAGC
The
Tennessee District Attorneys General Conference was created by the
General Assembly in 1961 to provide for a more prompt and efficient
administration of justice in the courts of the state. It is composed of
the elected District Attorneys General from the state’s 31 judicial
districts. www.tndagc.org
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