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Safer Path presents SART biennial report; commissioners acknowledge rising local exam access and service need
Summary
Safer Path executive director Rhonda Williamson told the Atascosa County Commissioners Court that the county’s Sexual Assault Response Team (SART) has increased adult survivors served from 20 in 2022 to 68 in 2025, linked in part to local forensic exam access; commissioners formally acknowledged the biennial report and were asked to continue support amid a recent $300,000 funding cut to assault services.
Rhonda Williamson, executive director of Safer Path, presented the Atascosa County Sexual Assault Response Team’s 2025 biennial report to the county commissioners court on Dec. 8 and asked the court to officially acknowledge the document and continue supporting the SART partnership.
Williamson said the SART was formed in December 2021 after state law required coordinated local response. She told the court that local access to Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE) services — available at Methodist Hospital Atascosa since November 2024 through the Texas Forensic Nurse…
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