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WI May Expand “Good Samaritan” Law to 911 Calls for Sexual Assault
['Kastalia Medrano', 'Diane Goldstein', 'Stanton Peele', 'Shilo Jama']
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Other provisions of the bill would strengthen lease termination protections for sexual assault survivors, as well as extend the statute of limitations for filing complaints of second-degree sexual assault from 10 years to 20 years.
Overdose “Good Samaritan” laws are an asset to public health, but are also rife with fine print.
Overdose “Good Samaritan” laws, as they’re commonly known, vary a lot from state to state.
The person who calls 911 to the scene of a sexual assault is unlikely be the same person who committed the assault.
Most states don’t extend these laws to sexual assault reporting, but Wisconsin wouldn’t be the first to do so.