On October 21, 2024, the fifth in a series of workshops for judicial officials as part of the SURF&SOUND 2.0 project was held at the Regional Center of the Judicial Academy in Osijek. The workshop was attended by 9 participants, employees of the county court and municipal and county state attorneys' offices from the Osijek-Baranja, Vukovar-Srijem, Virovitica-Podravina and Slavonia-Brod counties.
Krunoslav Stjepan Rajačić, Deputy County State Attorney at the County State Attorney's Office in Zagreb, gave a presentation on the legal qualification of crimes committed online, with an emphasis on the most common ones.
Renato Grgurić, an IT forensic expert from the Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of Croatia, gave a presentation on collecting digital evidence and cross-border access to electronic (digital) evidence for the purpose of effectively prosecuting online violence against women and searching for holders of electronic (digital) evidence.
Ivana Bilušić, judge of the Velika Gorica County Court, gave a presentation on the case law of the European Court of Human Rights related to the issue of online violence against women and presented examples and concerns from case law.
The project "SURF and SOUND 2.0" aims to enable systematic work on the protection of women victims of domestic and gender-based violence in the online environment, and is implemented by the BaBe association in partnership with the Agency for Electronic Media and associated partners, the Judicial Academy and the Police Directorate. The project is funded by the European Union from the CERF - Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values program and co-financed by the Office for Cooperation with NGOs of the Government of the Republic of Croatia.
