Tracking of sex assaults in Alaska ‘inadequate,’ Senate committee says
From the Anchorage Daily News: Alaska needs more village public safety officers, forensic nurses and better tracking for sexual assaults to help combat its status as the rape capital of the U.S., according to a new Senate Judiciary Committee report.
The report, released Friday, calls the current sex assault data tracking system “inadequate at best” for a state with a sex assault report rate of more than 2 1/2 times the national average.
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“We have a serious problem here in the state,” said state Sen. Hollis French, D-Anchorage, chairman of the Judiciary Committee. “Just focusing on the people that we’ve convicted isn’t getting at the problem. … What we heard loud and clear was that there are simple ways to build stronger cases, to produce more viable prosecutions against the many, many cases that are happening out there.”
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