与 KCSARC 一起倡导变革
2026 STATE LEGISLATIVE SESSION
PRIORITY: Fund crime victims services at $21 million in supplemental budget
Survivors need and deserve immediate and comprehensive response when they seek support. In fact, sexual assault survivors have a right in state law to be referred to support in their community. That response is at risk across Washington state if state lawmakers do not fill a $21 million gap this year in federal funding for these services.
KCSARC is once again partnering with organizations statewide that assist survivors of sexual assault, domestic violence, child abuse and other violence. Together, we urge state lawmakers this year to keep crime victims services at least level-funded this coming year, while we look down the road to advance a stabilization fund for these services here in King County and statewide.
In his proposed budget, Governor Ferguson allocated $12 million for crime victims services. We are grateful for this starting point, and ask legislators to protect that $12 million — and bring it up to $21 million needed to simply maintain the levels of service survivors can access today.
PRIORITY: Strengthen and protect survivor rights
KCSARC and the statewide Sexual Assault Working Group support SB 6017/HB 2493. These important bills would:
- Reauthorize the Sexual Assault Forensic Examination Advisory Group in the Attorney General’s office through 2028;
- Expand the definition of “sexual assault survivor” within the survivor bill of rights to include victims of female genital mutilation/cutting;
- Allow young people age 13+ to seek domestic violence nonfatal strangulation medical forensic exams;
- Prevents survivors from being questioned by defendants who self-represent in legal proceedings.
We are monitoring several other bills during this short, 60-day session. Please sign up below for our legislative advocacy alerts for timely information and updates.
关于我们的倡导
KCSARC 在州、地方和联邦层面开展工作，加强支持性侵犯幸存者的公共政策和资源。与我们的支持者、合作伙伴以及参与我们的勇敢的幸存者一起 赋权的声音 计划，我们为我们在许多方面取得的进步感到自豪。
- 面临风险的服务： 我们已提醒州立法者，服务需求的不断增长，加上联邦《犯罪受害者法案》（VOCA）资金的大幅减少以及二十年来州政府资金的持平，使受害者服务的可用性面临风险。近年来，州立法者已在州预算中一次性追加拨款以应对这一问题。这笔临时资金暂时阻止了性侵犯、家庭暴力、虐待儿童和其他暴力犯罪受害者服务的进一步削减。KCSARC 将与全州和地方合作伙伴一道，继续在各级政府倡导资金和永久性资源，以稳定受害者服务。
- 现在和将来防止性虐待： 我们已确保华盛顿州的每位 K-12 学生都能获得全面的性健康教育，并获得基础课程，更好地帮助识别性虐待并防止性暴力的发生。
- 增加对性侵犯保护令的访问并消除障碍： 幸存者现在可以寻求终身有效的 SAPO 保护。 2021 年，我们支持了具有里程碑意义的立法，消除了幸存者保护令的障碍。
- 取消了起诉儿童性虐待的诉讼时效，并增加了成年受害者挺身而出的时间。
- 呼吁优先考虑在金县刑事司法系统中等待正义的性侵犯幸存者 — 请参阅我们的“漫长等待”报告以及其 2024 年的后续作品， 驾驭正义， 该研究调查了金县高等法院系统中 408 名受害者的经历和结果。
- 共同主办首届犯罪幸存者峰会 该活动将于 2025 年在金县举行，汇集幸存者、倡导者、社区团体、检察官、执法人员、法官和民选官员，共同关注犯罪幸存者及其家人康复和治愈所需的一切。
还有更多工作要做——我们需要您的帮助
我们需要确保每个受害者都能说出真相并被倾听。我们正在努力稳定对幸存者的支持性社区资源，并制定保护幸存者、维护他们的权利并防止他们在刑事司法系统中受到进一步伤害的法律。
加入我们的电子邮件警报系统，以便第一个知道何时需要与立法者讨论影响幸存者的政策。我们会让您知道问题是什么以及如何联系正确的决策者。