State Attorney General Bill Schuette says his department for a third time has been awarded a competitive three-year grant from the U.S. Department of Justice, Office on Violence Against Women.
The “Improving Criminal Justice Response to Sexual Assault, Dating Violence, and Stalking Grant Program” will support the Department’s Sexual Assault Unit lead by Assistant Attorney General Angela Povilaitis.
The unit also includes a special investigator and victim advocate.
Schuette said the efforts of Povilaitis “are crucial to our department and her work for the victims of these horrible crimes has a lasting impact,”
“I commend her efforts in receiving this grant for the Sexual Assault Unit,” he said, “and for the department’s ongoing effort to deliver justice for victims of sexual assault.”
First received in 2011, then 2014 and now this year, the grant will support the Sexual Assault Unit and its efforts to investigate, prosecute, and assist county prosecutors on sexual assault, domestic violence, and stalking cases throughout Michigan.
In addition to responding to requests from elected prosecutors, the unit also will investigate sexual assault cold cases identified though a monthly CODIS hit list disseminated to prosecutors.
The award is the result of a joint project with the Michigan Domestic and Sexual Violence Prevention and Treatment Board.
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