The Hays County Commissioners Court adopted a proclamation related to the creation of the county’s Sexual Assault Response Teams (SART) during Tuesday’s regular meeting.
“This will definitely formalize the process, it will move, progress the work that we have already started so we know that there’s a couple of things dictated by the statute that we’re going to start enacting,” said Melissa Rodriguez, Chief Executive Officer of the Hays-Caldwell Women’s Center. “One very obvious thing that we need to do is form a protocol so it is something we will do, we know it will strengthen the team.”
Rodriguez mentioned that she recently learned part of the reason why the requirement for a SART statewide was due to there being less than 10% of Texas counties that had an existing SART.
