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SAKI TTA Webinar: Victim Notification: Safety and Privacy Planning
— SAKI TTA, Oct 23, 2018
This webinar was presented by Lauren DeVries, Crime Victim Advocate, Utah Commission on Criminal and Juvenile Justice (CCJJ), Salt Lake City, Utah.? Safety and privacy planning has been recognized as a strong consideration for cold case sexual assault victim notifications in the sexual assault response process. Lauren DeVries, Crime Victim Advocate, with the Salt Lake City, Utah Commission on Criminal and Juvenal Justice addressed why safety and privacy planning is an important consideration for sexual assault survivors. Additionally, the presenters from this SAKI site spoke to strategies for implementing this concept, including, but not limited to, physical safety, emotional safety, privacy planning, court privacy, confidentiality, and civil orders of protection.
Rape kit testing leads to charges in 2006 case
— Ashley Imlay, Deseret News, Oct 22, 2018
A 12-year-old sexual assault kit processed through the Salt Lake County Sexual Assault Kit Initiative leads to an arrest. This kit was among the more than 2,000 previously unsubmitted sexual assault kits that have been sent to the Utah State Crime Lab for DNA testing
Washington State Tries To Address Massive Rape Kit Backlog
— Anna Boiko-Weyrauch, WBUR 90.9, Oct 22, 2018
Washington State is looking into ways to process their more than 8,000 previously unsubmitted sexual assault kits more efficiently. They are looking at how Ohio has processed their previously unsubmitted sexual assault kit backlog for answers.
DOJ completes review of sexual assault kit tests
— Teymour Tomsyck, Channel 3000, Oct 18, 2018
The Wisconsin DOJ has received $1 million SAKI grant to continue their Wisconsin SAKI program. The additional funding will help the WiSAKI program train local prosecutors, compile information from the kits, and support additional analysis of the kits.
Grant will fund testing of some Tulsa rape kits
— Barla Slipke, The Oklahomian, Oct 18, 2018
Tulsa police received a $1.5 million SAKI grant to assist in their efforts of supporting sexual assault survivors. The grant money will allow 750 previously unsubmitted sexual assault kits to be tested, allow the Tulsa PD to hire a cold-case detective to work on the cases that result from testing the kits as well as a victim advocate for the Special Victims Unit.
Office of the State Attorney Awarded $2.3 Million to process assault kits
— Jax Daily Record, Oct 17, 2018
The Office of the State Attorney for the 4th Judicial Circuit of Florida, has received a SAKI grant totalling $2.3 million to continue building on previous work funded by SAKI. This new grant will continue to fund a specialized sexual assault response team, and expand DNA databases.
