By Paige Lambert

Sexual assault is never an easy topic to discuss. 

Hays County, Hays Caldwell Women’s Center officials and school districts are trying to open the conservation about the reality of sexual assault.

Melissa Rodriguez, HCWC director of development and community partnerships, said conversations about sexual assault were generally closed minded before NFL player Ray Rice assaulted his fiancée in 2014.

“In general I think people are against sexual assault on a surface level,...