Sexual assault victims could access only a fraction of the public money other crime victims are entitled to receive under a proposed regulation Louisiana’s Crime Victims Reparations Board is supposed to vote on April 11.
Crime victim advocates thought they had scored a big victory in June when Gov. John Bel Edwards signed a new law granting more flexibility and bigger awards out of Louisiana’s crime victims reparations fund. But members of the state board who oversee the money are uncomfortable with the changes.
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Nearly 100 calls to report rapes this year have been quickly downgraded from emergency status, leaving survivors to wait hours for police — and, increasingly, to leave before officers arrive, a New Orleans newspaper and TV station report.