Ventura-- The Board of Supervisors, Tuesday, February 8, ratified the Office of Justice Program Ventura County Sherriff’s Office National Sexual Assault Kit Initiative Program grant.
THE grant was for
$2.499 million, and the board also adopted a resolution establishing a full-time equivalent fixed-term Deputy District Attorney III effective July 1, 2022, through June 30, 2024.
The action establishes a full-time fixed-term District Attorney Investigator II position and District Attorney II Criminal Prosecutions position effective October 1, 2022, through September 30, 2024.
Sherriff Bill Ayub led the presentation off, and he said the grant money would help with the backlog of sex assault kits countywide.
“The purpose of this is to give us more resources to work on the backlog of sexual assault kits that have accumulated overtime at the various agencies around the county,” he said. “We did an inventory recently and identified 817 such kits. In earnest, all agencies were not able to comply with the inventory. At the time we submitted this grant, we believe in actuality, they’re in the neighborhood of 1,000 such kits that need to need to be processed, and potentially investigations conducted to bring justice in those cases.”
District Attorney Erik Nasarenko said…
