MANATEE COUNTY, Fla. - Domestic violence and intimate partner violence touch millions of lives every year. For the Manatee County Courthouse, the issue is deeply personal.

Two former employees —Jazmin Catano and Erin Craft Jones — lost their lives to domestic violence, and now their names will remain permanently honored within the courthouse where they once worked.

The backstory:

Erin Craft Jones began working at the courthouse in 2006, dedicating more than a decade of service in the traffic and court services division. After moving to Alabama in 2022, she was killed by a former partner.

Jazmin Catano joined the courthouse in 2013, spending six months in the criminal division before her life was tragically cut short that same year when she was killed by an ex-boyfriend. Both women

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