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Sex offenders

FY 20 DC SORNA

2020-DS-BX-0007
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2020
$144,801

RI SORNA 2020

2020-DS-BX-0022
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2020
$43,837

FY 20 SORNA

2020-DS-BX-0019
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2020
$80,797

'Looking backwards can tell us a whole lot about moving forward'

Cleveland suspect
Photo credit: Cleveland.com

When Cuyahoga County, Ohio, embarked on the testing of nearly 7,000 backlogged sexual assault kits (SAKs) in early 2013, metaphors from Greek and Roman mythology abounded in the Cleveland media coverage – 'Herculean task' and 'Pandora's box' chief among them.

Five years on, now that the backlog has been largely cleared, the sense of dread associated with those words has been replaced by one of...