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Sexual Assault Center

Victim services providers find $20M of relief in revised state budget

By Cynthia Abrams

March 26, 2025

Gov. Bill Lee’s substitute budget includes a new line item: $20 million dollars for victim services.

Filed Under: Criminal Justice, Politics, WPLN News Tagged With: Appalachia + Mid-South Newsroom, Bill Lee, domestic violence, federal funding, sexual assault, Sexual Assault Center, state budget, Tennessee Coalition to End Domestic and Sexual Violence

Nashville exhibit challenges myths that ‘provocative’ clothing can provoke sexual assault

By Natasha Senjanovic

April 25, 2023

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“What were you wearing?” That’s a question sexual assault survivors often hear — from friends, family, law enforcement. It’s also the name of a traveling exhibit of outfits that men, women and children were wearing when they were assaulted that’s designed to combat victim-blaming.

Filed Under: Criminal Justice, WPLN News Tagged With: sexual assault, Sexual Assault Center

How Tennessee’s rape kit backlog impacts survivors seeking justice

By Anna Gallegos-Cannon

March 15, 2023

Crime Lab
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On this episode, we’ll examine the process of getting a rape kit and reporting an assault, talk about the toll of waiting for answers, and explore the reasons why justice is hard to come by.

Filed Under: Programs Tagged With: criminal justice, sexual assault, Sexual Assault Center

Advocates for rape survivors begin lobbying effort to add exceptions to Tennessee’s strict abortion ban

By Blake Farmer

August 28, 2022

Heather Meshell
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The Sexual Assault Center in Nashville is launching a campaign directed at Republican state lawmakers to allow abortion for rape and incest, even though they’ve shown almost no interest in exceptions to the law.

Filed Under: Abortion Live Updates, Health Care, WPLN News Tagged With: Abortion, Heather Meshell, Lorraine McGuire, rape and incest, Sexual Assault Center, trigger ban

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