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DNA Research
HEART Founder Urges Congress to Reduce DNA Case Backlogs by Reauthorizing the Debbie Smith Act
April 26th, 2008
Without federal reauthorization of the Debbie Smith Act, state and local governments will lose federal financial support for forensic DNA analysis after 2009. To oppose such losses, Debbie Smith -- a rape survivor, rape victim advocate, and founder of Hope Exists After Rape Trauma (HEART) -- testified at a U.S. Congressional hearing today in Washington D.C. Debbie called on the federal government to help victims of violent crimes by reauthorizing funding for this important federal DNA backlog grant program, which was part of the Justice for All Act of 2004. At risk is this program's funding that state and local forensic laboratories depend upon to assist in reducing DNA...
Source: Law & Health Weekly (2008-04-26)
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