Roy Cooper's Address Confidentiality Program helps hundreds of victims and their families avoid their abusers by allowing them to conceal their whereabouts, and by offering confidential mail forwarding and other services, all designed to keep the family’s new location safe from violence.

Protecting children from witnessing violence

A new law pushed by Cooper makes it a crime to use violence in front of a child. This helps battered parents protect their children from abusers and allow children from homes where domestic violence occurs to be treated as victims in their own right. 

Guarding children on the Internet

With reports of child predators targeting children on the Internet as their next sexual victims, Cooper set up a special Computer Crimes unit to use high-tech tools to find predators.

He is also battling social networking websites that encourage children to share intimate details with strangers, all without their parents knowing. He is pushing the websites to require a parent’s OK and to keep kids away from adults on the sites.

Making the workplace safer

Cooper has pushed through laws to give businesses new tools to keep their workplaces safe from domestic abusers of employees. He has also protecting victims and their co-workers by educating businesses and industries on how to promote safe work environments and prevent violence from following victims to work.

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