But the law was created because of complaints in 2000. On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 1:59 PM, Judah McAuley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There was a policy that said "its ok to charge victims for rape kits". As he > noted, the city tried to charge insurance first. Furthermore, the document > you link to says that there were no records of billings for fiscal year > 2000,2001,2002. It also notes that the law banning the practice of charging > victims for rape kits went into effect on 8/14/2000, so it would have been > illegal to charge them in fiscal 2001 or 2002. Since that document only > covers 2000 to 2002 and the bill went into effect in August of 2000, all we > can say for certain from that document is that no victims were billed during > the first 8 months of 2000. Possibly even less if the fiscal year started > later than Jan 1st (I don't know what fiscal year they operate on). > > The city didn't charge any rape victims for 8 months, whoopee! That still > doesn't change their policy. Or perhaps the Police Chief was lying? >
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