OPOTC helps the Attorney General’s Office shape training and compliance standards for Ohio peace officers.
Since 2011, my office has been working to reform the process for testing sexual assault kits and to better support survivors. We formed an advisory group to study the issue of old rape kits and to offer remedies. It recommended that evidence from any rape kit associated with a crime be tested.
Kenneth B. Morris Jr., a descendant of both abolitionist Frederick Douglass and civil rights leader Booker T. Washington, will be the keynote speaker at the Ohio Attorney General’s 2018 Law Enforcement Conference.
An electronic tracking system will soon allow sexual assault survivors to monitor the progress of their evidence kits through the testing process.