A new state law requires Texas counties to create Sexual Assault Response Teams (SARTs) and file a report on efforts to fight crime. Dallas and Collin have yet to file their reports.
A new state law requires Texas counties to create Sexual Assault Response Teams and file a report on efforts to fight crime. Dallas and Collin have yet to file their reports.to form an Sexual Assault Response Team in order to build a statewide infrastructure that would assist municipalities in combating adult sex crimes more effectively and efficiently.
The Denton County SART report, a 62-page document provided to us via email mere minutes after our initial request, includes all that and more. It also provides “data and findings” that make note of trends in 2022 and 2023 relating to a number of factors, including the race and ethnicity of survivors as well as how many survivors endured strangulation during their attack, knew their attacker intimately prior to the assault and more.
When we clarified to Ervin that the SART differed from the sexual assault division, which is, in fact, under the DA’s purview, he replied that he was “doing a little research to find out the members of the team” but that he didn't have names at that point. “The report is currently being finalized by the Sexual Assault Response Team,” Trimble wrote two days after our initial request. “Once that report is received by our office, I’d be happy to let you know so that you can file a records request. The report should contain the information you are requesting.”
She also described the difficulty involved when it comes to collecting data from myriad agencies and departments, especially ones over which the commissioners have no jurisdiction. She later added: “While we have taken a bit more time in putting together our report, it’s because we had so much discussion and back and forth between team members to ensure that the report was done to our standards and again not simply to check a box.
Given that Underwood has been passionately and productively active in her advocacy mission for so long is more than enough reason to take her concerns about how the law was written into serious consideration. In her words, SB 476 “does not do a good job of outlining or even explaining the role of commissioner courts with SART.”
Underwood, understandably, doesn’t view the report’s tardiness as a sign that her group is lagging behind other counties, nor as an indicator that Dallas County doesn’t take sexual assault as seriously as it should. To her, getting it right is more important than turning it in first, which might have required cutting corners or putting less than 100% into the effort. But not everyone has the same impression. State Rep. Dr.
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