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APD, SAFE Alliance and Travis County DA report rising sexual-assault case counts linked to data-audit work and say partnerships aim to strengthen investigations
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The Austin Police Department and its partners told the Public Safety Commission on Nov. 3 that reported sexual-assault cases rose in 2025 partly because of internal data-audit work and that coordinated steps are underway to improve investigations, prosecution and survivor services.
The Austin Police Department and its partners told the Public Safety Commission on Nov. 3 that reported sexual-assault cases rose in 2025 partly because of internal data-integrity work and are taking multiple steps to improve investigation, prosecution and survivor services.
"That [elevated line] is because of the data-integrity project that we've been working on," Assistant Chief Angie Jones said, explaining a sharp increase in cases after an October 2024 audit of how incidents were titled in APD's records. Jones said APD is auditing records back to 2019, consolidating multiple title codes into a single "sexual assault" title and expects that the cleaned data will align historical counts.
APD also told the commission it has standardized report-writing procedures, adjusted response-time expectations for sexual-assault calls and plans to launch a public data dashboard by the end of the…
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