The New Yorker11d
The Frustrated Promise of the Rape Kit
Standardized forensic exams are a useful tool for sexual-violence investigations—or they would be if police departments ...
Colorado Public Radio1d
Colorado lawmakers agree to free up $3 million to address rape kit backlog
Some lawmakers had demanded the Colorado Bureau of Investigation show a clear plan to resolve the 500-day wait for test ...
Northcountrypublicradio.org29d
A woman invented the rape kit. So why was a man given credit for it?
Rape kits were widely known as "Vitullo Kits" after a Chicago police sergeant. But a new book tells the story of Marty Goddard, a community... A woman invented the rape kit. So why was a man given ...
Indiana Lawyer2d
Proposed bills on courts, rape kit backlogs advance out of IN House
The Indiana General Assembly is making its way to the halfway point of the 2025 legislative session, with lawmakers ...
News and Tribune1d
House bill aims to clear Indiana’s rape kit backlog by providing the funding
Indiana is estimated to have between 600 and 800 untested rape kits. But Rep. Becky Cash, R-Zionsville, has received broad ...
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel21d
Rape kits are back in the news with the Wisconsin Supreme Court race. Here's what to know.
With the state Supreme Court race in high gear, Wisconsinites are seeing ads about an issue that made news in the 2010s: rape kits. The pace of the state Department of Justice's testing of this ...
Dawn25d
Anti-rape law in question: LHC CJ displeased at law officer’s absence
The bench inquired about the procurement of 32,000 kits for the DNA testing and was ... was to ensure the implementation of the Anti-Rape Act 2021 in its true spirit and also preventing the ...