Community fights state changes to sex offender treatment program, says traditions protect villages

The YK Delta Sex Offender Treatment Program community advisory board meets with DOC officials on November 16, 2016 at the Bethel Moravian ChurchDean Swope / KYUK
Community members are concerned that sexual assault in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta region may be about to increase, and that nearly a decade of work treating sex offenders and working with communities will be lost.
The worry comes as state budget cuts reduced within a month the region’s sex offender treatment program from two clini