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FL Track-Kit, launched as pilot program in 2022, now available statewide, allowing victims to track sexual assault kits. News Sports Entertainment Opinion Advertise Obituaries eNewspaper Legals STATE ...
The woman's sexual assault kit was returned from the lab, untested, after the case was dismissed. In 2018, however, it was tested as part of the initiative in Ingham County.
The Johnson County Board of Commissioners and ASSIST Indiana entered into an agreement Monday that puts the nonprofit in ...
Indiana last audited its untested sexual assault kits in 2017 when 91 counties submitted data to the Indiana State Police, which found there were 5,396 untested kits in the custody of law ...
As of April, Oregon State Police reported a backlog of 884 newly submitted sexual assault forensic evidence kits, or SAFE kits, up from 216 in January 2016, according to OSP SAFE kit summaries.
A Kansas Bureau of Investigation initiative is expected to change the state’s sexual assault evidence kit process so that ...
A fundraiser organized to protest Colorado’s 568-day backlog for processing sexual assault forensic exams resulted in a ...
By the fall of that year, Schimel said all 4,100 kits had been tested, the Journal Sentinel previously reported. ... known as the National Sexual Assault Kit Initiative, rarely does so.
Indiana’s crime labs currently face delays of six to eight months in processing sexual assault evidence, an unacceptably long wait for survivors. The backlog stands between 600 and 800 kits.
When Iowa made a major push to clear its sexual assault kit backlog, far more kits were found than expected. Just 37% from a 2016 count were tested. News Sports Opinion Business Advertise ...
Calling Colorado’s long turnaround times to process sexual assault evidence kits “simply unacceptable,” Gov. Jared Polis signed a law Tuesday that creates a review board and adds ...