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"...third-party audit of how the Austin Police Department has handled the last seven years of sexual assault cases...."

"...APD’s ever-growing rape kit backlog has prompted Travis County’s Sexual Assault Response and Resource Team (SARRT) to draft a..."

"...Local sexual assault advocates are celebrating a victory after the U.S...."

"...who sued local law enforcement over the treatment of sexual assault survivors waited for a ruling that it seemed..."

"...Hanna Senko is fed up with mere rhetoric. "Myself and many others have been advocating for improvements within the..."

"...if a new complaint is filed in the ongoing sexual assault survivors' lawsuit against the city of Austin, Travis..."

"...How does it feel seeing sexual assault become an election issue?..."

"...for a comprehensive audit of the Austin Police Department's handling of sexual assault cases, it approved a contract at..."

"...that has operated Austin's Downtown emergency shelter, the Austin Resource Center for the Homeless, since it first opened its..."

"...Former Austin Police Department sergeant and co-chair of the Austin/Travis County Sexual Assault Response and..."

"...José Garza, has announced a major shift in policies and practice to better support survivors of “interpersonal violence,” including..."

"...As we all doomscroll and stress-bake our way through this longest of all Election..."

"...Department shuttered its DNA lab due to out-of-date procedures and unqualified analysts, department officials have tapped a third party..."

"...Every 107 seconds someone is sexually assaulted in the U.S., and in Texas, two in..."

"...Every aspect of Austin and Travis County's sexual assault response system is under-resourced, according..."

"...with a bachelor's degree in psychology. Bell was born and raised in Austin, and she hopes to stay here..."

"...multitude of problems he let fester erupted into national scandal – landed an executive job at City Hall and..."

"...memo last week that he indefinitely suspended APD Officer Andrew Upton for helping the suspect in an alleged domestic..."

"...career at APD that spanned more than two decades and saw the El Paso native rise up the chain..."

"...In last week's feature on the response to sexual assault in Travis County ("Painful Splits Along..."

"...At 12:01am on May 30, SafePlace began offering Sexual Assault Forensic Exams (SAFEs, colloquially known as rape kits)...."

"...since the June shutdown of the department's forensics lab, and very little evidence has been tested in the interim...."

"...after the 2016 implosion of the APD forensics lab and included kits dating as far back as the 1990s...."

"...Services Unit is now accepting applications from Austin-area nonprofit and private practice counselors to participate in an up-to-three-year program..."

"...The Austin Police Department’s notorious rape kit backlog is..."

"...Department shuttered its DNA lab due to out-of-date procedures and unqualified analysts, department officials have tapped a third party..."

"...Advocates for sexual assault survivors are celebrating a $50,000 win after City..."

"...lab in 2016, two firms – local Signature Science and Virginia's Bode Cellmark Forensics – have been tapped to..."

"...questioning from Council, Chacon committed to rejoining the cross-agency Sexual Assault Resource and Response Team (SARRT), which Manley withdrew..."

"...the DWI because I have no jurisdiction or authority and limited information regarding the rape allegations or the investigation..."