Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, August 25, 2026 – Jalisco has begun tailored training with Prosecutor’s Office (Fiscalía) personnel in Puerto Vallarta after assessing needs across every regional office in the state. The local District VIII team is among the first two groups in a statewide rollout focused on how LGBT people are received and how their cases are handled.
The Diversity Directorate introduced its A tu medida program in District VIII, based in Puerto Vallarta, and District VII, based in Autlán de Navarro. Unlike a standard awareness class, the model begins with employee assessments that identify structural and workplace-culture barriers. Results are then used to build an action plan specific to each office.
The initial sessions included public prosecutors, early-attention staff, aides, administrative employees and directors. Together, those roles cover initial intake, case routing, investigations and office management. The state framed the program as a way to prevent discriminatory treatment and revictimization involving LGBT people and other priority populations.
Viviana Daniela Arce Corona, head of Jalisco’s Diversity Directorate, said first contact is central to the project. Program coordinator José Emiliano Ríos Burgos said course content is selected after the assessment rather than delivered from a fixed syllabus.
The Puerto Vallarta session follows a May meeting between the regional Fiscalía and Red Diversidad Vallarta. The office named assistant director Elizabeth Rosales as its LGBT liaison, creating a defined contact on cases involving sexual and gender diversity. The agreement reported May 29 also included plans to explain the criminal process to activists and community organizations.
The August training is directed inward at Fiscalía personnel. The May liaison arrangement gives community organizations a named contact when requesting information about a case.
Separate legal help has also expanded outside the Fiscalía. PVDN reported in June that MOVii and Grindr had opened an LGBTQ legal-aid campaign across Puerto Vallarta and Bahía de Banderas, connecting people who report abuse or bias with legal assistance.
The state training operates within a standard already on the books. A national prosecution protocol approved in 2017 sets conduct rules when a criminal investigation involves sexual orientation or gender identity. It covers LGBT people in any procedural role, including victims and accused people, and requires human-rights protection, a gender perspective, affirmative action and non-discrimination.
Complaints alleging human-rights violations by public officials can also be submitted through the CEDHJ online form. The commission’s Costa Norte office is at Avenida de los Grandes Lagos 236 in Fluvial Vallarta. Its local telephone numbers are 322 293 5661 and 322 225 6484.
Jalisco says the diagnostic stage is complete across all 12 regional directorates and about 300 public employees will participate in the next phases. Sessions move to Chapala and Tlajomulco next week, followed by the remaining regional offices during September and October.
