A victim of a crime should never be afraid to come forward. Reporting a crime is the most effective way to make our community safer by holding offenders accountable. Yet far too often, many default to a position of disbelief or distrust when survivors of sexual assault share their experiences.
When a sexual assault is in any way made public, especially because of the involvement of the criminal justice system, people typically wonder:
As part of the victim-focused approach, the District Attorney’s Office formed a Special Victims Unit to focus on crimes against intimate partners or with child victims. Attorneys and victim/witness coordinators in the SVU take a trauma-informed approach in their work, which requires a lot of trust-building.
Senate Bill 367 (SB 367), enacted in 2016, revised the Juvenile Justice Code. One of the goals of SB 367 is to keep low risk juvenile offenders out of the juvenile offender system. K.S.A. 38-2346 mandates that effective, July 1, 2017, the Douglas County District Attorney’s Office will no longer be able to offer its Juvenile Diversion program. K.S.A. 38-2346, however, establishes an Immediate Intervention Process (IIP) by which juveniles may avoid facing adjudication as a juvenile offender.
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