Improving trauma-informed training
After Leah Griffin was raped in 2014, she went to the police station to file a report. When she asked how long she would have to wait, she was told to “just go home,” she said.
She waited in the lobby for two hours, crying.
“Police came out and started to interview me about the most traumatic event of my life in the lobby in front of a man complaining about a package theft,” Griffin said.
In 2019, Orwall and Mosbrucker’s HB 1166 required specialized trauma-informed training for members of law enforcement who are responsible for investigating sexual assault cases. If HB 1109 becomes law this year,
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