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After nine years and nearly $350 million, USA TODAY confirmed just one exoneration resulting from a grant program to address untested rape kits. Testing forgotten rape kits could free the innocent ...
Effective September 1, 2010, The Illinois Senate's Sexual Assault Submissions Act (Senate Bill 3269) requires law enforcement agencies to submit all evidence collected by rape kits for laboratory analysis within 180 days after the effective date of October 15, 2010, with a written notice to the State Police. Illinois was the first state to ...
Agencies across the country that received federal money to address neglected sexual assault kits need to do a better job of following up on test results, including supporting survivors and ...
Alexenko's rape kit sat on a shelf at the New York City Police Department property clerk's office for nine years. In 2003, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg announced the "John Doe Indictment Project," a coordinated city-wide initiative that aimed to prevent sex offenders from using the statute of limitations to escape prosecution. [ 1 ]
An October 2008 audit of the Los Angeles city crime lab by Human Rights Watch revealed that rape kit backlogs increased between 2004 and 2008, despite nearly $4 million in Debbie Smith DNA Backlog Program grants. In January 2007, the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) revealed that approximately 5,000 rape kits resided in LAPD storage facilities.
In 2015, USA TODAY Network reporters discovered tens of thousands of untested rape kits stored at police departments across the nation. Later that year, the U.S. Department of Justice announced ...
The Survivors' Bill of Rights Act of 2016 (Pub. L. 114–236 (text)) is a landmark civil rights and victims rights legislation in the United States that establishes, for the first time, statutory rights in federal code for survivors of sexual assault and rape. The law impacts nearly 25 million estimated rape survivors in the United States. [1]
Since then, 90 local and state agencies have been allocated about $350 million dollars in Justice Department grants intended to help test backlogged kits, solve more cases and give answers to rape ...