Meaghan Ybos
Co-founder and director, People for the Enforcement of Rape Laws
A National Push For Victims’ Rights is Now Hitting Florida. But Critics Are Fighting Back.
Voters in Florida may soon get to decide whether to give victims of crime a bigger say in the criminal justice system.
Meaghan Ybos Mar 12, 2018
Five Ways the Media-Driven Rape Kit ‘Backlog’ Narrative Gets it Wrong
Across the country, police departments have chronically failed to investigate rape cases, leaving rape kits — the physical evidence collected from a rape victim’s body — untested. Unfortunately, a false narrative has taken hold around the concept of a rape kit backlog.
I was Raped. And I Believe The Brock Turner Sentence Is a Success Story.
The plane’s voyage was commissioned by feminist group UltraViolet to protest former Stanford swimmer Brock Turner’s six-month sentence handed down by Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Aaron Persky in 2016 for sexually assaulting an unconscious woman on campus the previous year. The sentence ignited an outcry and an effort to recall Judge Persky.