Yesterday, L.A. County Supervisor Zev Yarovslavksy announced that the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors and the Los Angeles Sheriffs Department will completely fund the testing of every single rape kit in the backlog within the next two years, and the expansion of a staff to ensure that a backlog will never return to their shelves.

We've been following this story for awhile and it's just so gratifying to see that the coalition of organizations advocating on this issue have won the fight on all fronts.

Thank you to the following groups and all the individuals who got the word out about this outrageous backlog: Human Rights Watch (led by superstar Sarah Tofte), Peace Over Violence, the Santa Monica Rape Treatment Center, the Downtown Women's Center, National Council
of Jewish Women, Hollywood Now, and many more.

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August 27, 2009 11:54 AM

[0+]  onemorefeminist said:

Yes, I'd like to shout out a thank you to Councilmember Lindsey Horvath for her relentless work on this issue.

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