Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson.
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More than a dozen Seattle-area law enforcement agencies — including police departments in Bothell and Redmond — will receive funding for refrigeration units meant for storing evidence from sexual assault investigations, according to state Attorney General Bob Ferguson.
“More storage means more evidence can be tested, and more crimes can be solved,” Ferguson said in a news release. “These resources will bring justice to survivors.”
The money is being allocated under Ferguson’s Sexual Assault Kit Initiative, a federally funded program his office started in 2017 to address the state’s huge backlog of sexual assault
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