On the Job 

The Ohio Attorney General’s Office works with local law enforcement agencies to put crime victims and their families on a path toward rebuilding their lives in the aftermath of violent crime.

According to the annual Ohio Attorney General’s Office Human Trafficking Report released earlier this year, law enforcement officers are conducting more human trafficking investigations, and identifying more potential traffickers and trafficking victims, in Ohio than have ever been reported before.

After a series of law enforcement involved shootings and deaths in Ohio and elsewhere in the nation, Attorney General Mike DeWine established a working group to look at the training for Ohio peace officers.

Law enforcement officers have often told me that they see many of the same people com­mit violent crimes time and time again. 

Attorney General Mike DeWine announced an agreement with Amphastar Pharmaceuticals Inc. – a manufacturer of the drug Naloxone – to provide rebates to police departments and other non-governmental agencies that distribute the drug in Ohio. 

Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine has been encouraging local law enforcement in the state to send in Sexual Assault Kits for DNA testing by the Bureau of Criminal Investigation. 

Working with others in your community to respond to sexual assault is the surest way to convict offenders and support victims. The Attorney General’s Crime Victim Services staff and Interpersonal Violence Response Training Team help local responders put such networks in place and provide expertise and resources to sustain them.

A hit rate of 36 percent on evidence from rape kits stored for years across the state translates into “miracles almost every day,” says Attorney General Mike DeWine.

Who would argue when Cuyahoga County Assistant Prosecutor Rick Bell calls these offenders the “worst of the worst”?

The results we’re seeing with the Attorney General’s Sexual Assault Kit Initiative — in the laboratory, in investigations, and in courtrooms — are among the most promising I’ve witnessed in my career.