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Dominican Republic judicial service expansion

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2026-09-19 00:55 UTC → 2026-09-19 11:59 UTC · added removed

The Dominican Republic’s Attorney General’s Office is expanding judicial services through the inauguration of new facilities designed to decentralize justice and bring it closer to local communities. In Villa Altagracia, the office opened an Ordinary Prosecutor’s Office and an Integral Attention Unit specifically for victims of gender, domestic, and sexual violence. This facility centralizes complaints, legal assistance, and psychological and forensic medical evaluations. Following this, Attorney General Jenny Berenice Reynoso Gómez inaugurated a Comprehensive Access to Justice Center in the municipality of Villa Isabela, Puerto Plata province. This center is designed to serve 48 surrounding communities, providing permanent prosecutorial services alongside forensic medicine, social work, and legal assistance. The initiative aims to reduce the need for residents to travel to San Felipe de Puerto Plata for legal procedures, complaints, or ministerial management, as part of a national expansion plan by the Ministerio Público to ensure justice is accessible in smaller municipalities and rural areas. Attorney General Reynoso emphasized that justice must be accessible “where people live.” Recent reports confirm developments in Puerto Plata, including a series of infrastructure inaugurations by President Luis Abinader, have further highlighted the regional focus on service decentralization. This includes the opening of the Justice Access Center in Villa Isabela as part of a broader regional developments in Puerto Plata aimed at decentralizing effort to strengthen local services alongside new waste management, transportation, and providing easier access to educational projects in the Public Ministry for local populations. province.

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  1. 2026-09-19 11:59 UTC Dominican Republic judicial service expansion
  2. 2026-09-19 00:55 UTC Dominican Republic judicial service expansion
  3. 2026-09-18 23:30 UTC Dominican Republic judicial service expansion
  4. 2026-09-18 20:02 UTC Dominican Republic judicial service expansion
  5. 2026-09-18 00:48 UTC Dominican Republic judicial service expansion

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