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Tillamook County proclaims April as Sexual Assault Awareness Month; local advocacy group outlines plan to restore SANE services
Summary
On April 9 the Tillamook County Board of Commissioners unanimously adopted a proclamation designating April 2025 as Sexual Assault Awareness Month. Valerie Bundy of Tides of Change described plans — backed by a federal grant — to bring local Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE) forensic exams back to the county.
The Tillamook County Board of Commissioners on April 9 unanimously adopted a proclamation declaring April 2025 as Sexual Assault Awareness Month and heard from Tides of Change about a plan to restore local sexual-assault forensic exams.
Valerie Bundy, executive director of the nonprofit Tides of Change, told commissioners Tillamook County has not been able to provide forensic exams to sexual-assault survivors locally “since before the pandemic.” She said survivors seeking evidence collection to support prosecution currently must travel out of the county for exams, which “can take hours depending on how bad the assault was, and then…
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