Policy Text
CHIEF
STRICT
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SIMI VALLEY
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OXNARD POLICE
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VENTURA
COUNTY
DISTRICT ATTORNEY ERIK NASARENKO
Ventura County District Attorney's Office
SHERIFF JIM FRYHOFF
Ventura County Sheriff's Office
CHIEF DARIN SCHINDLER
Ventura Police Department
CHIEF JASON BENITES
Oxnard Police Department
VENTURA COUNTY
LAW ENFORCEMENT
COORDINATING COMMITTEE
CHIEF MICHAEL FEDERICO
Port Hueneme Police Department
CHIEF STEVE SHORTS
Simi Valley Police Department
INTERIM CHIEF DON AGUILAR
Santa Paula Police Department
CAPTAIN JAROD PRIMICERIO
California Highway Patrol
Memorandum of Agreement
Sexual Assault Kit Testing
As leaders of Ventura County law enforcement agencies, we are committed to the efficient
processing of sexual assault kits ("SAKS"). The efficient processing of these SAKS serves to
honor the victims of these offenses and enhance our ability to bring their offenders to justice.
Toward this end, the law enforcement agencies that investigate these crimes ("investigating
LEAS") commit to the following:
As of the effective date of this Memorandum of Agreement, investigating LEAs will
submit SAKs to the Ventura County Sheriff's Office Crime Lab ("Crime Lab") for
testing within 20 days after the SAK is collected.
SAKS will be submitted to the Crime Lab according to these guidelines regardless of
whether the victim chooses to cooperate with law enforcement's investigation.
Accordingly, SAKs collected following an "abbreviated" medical evidentiary
examination pursuant to Penal Code section 13823.95(b)(1) will be submitted to the
Crime Lab as outlined above.
• The only SAKs that investigating LEAs will not submit to the Crime Lab are those where
the investigating LEA determines within 20 days that the allegation of a sexual assault
was false.
If an investigating LEA submits a SAK to the Crime Lab and later determines the
allegation of a sexual assault was false, the investigating LEA will notify the Crime Lab's
Combined DNA Index System ("CODIS") administrator of that determination.
The Crime Lab commits to the following:
All SAKS received from investigating LEAs will be initially processed for the presence
of DNA evidence within 120 days of receipt, and any qualifying offender DNA profiles
will be uploaded to CODIS.
We, the undersigned, as authorized representatives of the Ventura County Sheriff's Office, the
Ventura County District Attorney's Office, the Oxnard Police Department, the Port Hueneme
Police Department, the Santa Paula Police Department, the Simi Valley Police Department, and
the Ventura Police Department do hereby approve this document.
Reviewed and adopted by the following on this
30th
day of
June
2023.
DISTRICT ATTORNEY ERIK NASARENKO
Ventura County District Attorney's Office
SHERIFF JIM FRYHOFF
Ventura County Sheriff's Office
CHIEF STEVE SHORTS
Simi Valley Police Department
CHIEF JASON BENITES
Oxnard Police Department
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CHIEF DARIN SCHINDLER
Ventura Police Department
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CHIEF MICHAEL FEDERICO
Port Hueneme Police Department
INTERIM CHIEF DON AGUILAR
Santa Paula Police Department
COMMANDER JAROD PRIMICERIO
California Highway Patrol