Safety Resources

Alabama Law Enforcement Agency (ALEA)

• Active Shooter Information

Helpful Organizations - Domestic and Sexual Violence:

• The Lighthouse - The Lighthouse is committed to providing support, preventing violence and promoting justice for victims of domestic violence and sexual assault in Baldwin, Monroe and Escambia counties. Located in Robertsdale, Alabama.
• The Lighthouse Services
• Forms of Abuse - Accessed from The Lighthouse website
• Alabama Coalition Against Domestic Violence
• Alabama Coalition Against Sexual Violence

Dating Abuse - Did you know?

(Provided by The Lighthouse, Information found at the "Love is Not Abuse" website)

• 32 percent of college students (1 in 3) have reported dating violence by a previous partner
• Developing a dating safety plan helps the victim to think in advance how to be protected from harm, instead of waiting until the danger occurs.
• More than 60 percent of acquaintance rapes on college campuses occur in casual or steady dating relationships.
• Students should always save threatening e-mails, text messages or any other forms of communicating threats made against them. This can be key evidence to prosecute the perpetrator.
• A shocking 90 percent of victims know their attackers.