Date rape drug expert and ex-Los Angeles Police Department narcotics officer Trinka Porrata will speak at Sacramento State Thursday, at 11:45 a.m. in the Hinde Auditorium of the University Union. Porrata will speak on sexual assault, date rape, rave drug awareness, and on the legal and psychological consequences of the drugs.

Porrata, who worked for the LAPD for 25 years until retiring in 1999, is an acknowledged expert and nationally known speaker on date rape and party drugs such as GHB, flunitrazepam (Roofies) and MDMA (Ecstasy).

Porrata worked in the LAPD Narcotics Division for eight years, and has experience with sexual assault cases.

Jessica Higgins, the sexual assault education and advocacy coordinator for the Women?s Resource Center at Sac State, is organizing the event.

“I think that we?re very lucky to have Ms. Porrata come here because she?s definitely the top expert on the West coast, if not nationally,” Higgins said. “If people think it?s not an issue on campus, they have another thing coming.”

After retiring from the LAPD, Porrata became a nationally recognized expert on trendy party drugs and speaks to high school and college groups, law enforcement and medical personnel, and parents and counselors nationwide about these drugs and their consequences.

For more information, call 278-7388.