Tessa Phair: Utah can do more for sexual assault survivors

Letting cases stall after being reported to the police halts justice for victims and allows perpetrators to avoid consequences.

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) A sexual assault evidence collection kit is displayed as the Sexual Assault Kit Initiative (SAKI) group and a new information line are introduced to the public at a press conference on July 19, 2017 at the DPS Crime Lab in Taylorsville.

Tessa Phair: Utah can do more for sexual assault survivors

Letting cases stall after being reported to the police halts justice for victims and allows perpetrators to avoid consequences.

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