rape kits

The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation has made progress in shortening monthslong delays in laboratory testing of sexual assault evidence, according to a new audit by the state’s comptroller.

For years, lengthy delays in testing sexual assault kits left victims in limbo — unable to learn whether evidence that passes from nurses to police to labs and back has made it through the system or slipped through the cracks.

A bill making its way through the Tennessee legislature would give sexual assault survivors the ability to track the location of their rape kits. If…

A Democratic lawmaker has filed two pieces of legislation hoping to increase access to sexual assault nurse examiners in Kentucky. Sexual assault nurse…

Survivors of sexual assault in Illinois will soon be able to monitor online the progress of DNA evidence related to their case, state police said.Illinois…

According to a 2015 report from the White House's Office of the Press Secretary, an estimated 400,000 rape kits across the country are sitting in storage,…

A McCracken County Grand Jury has indicted a Louisville man in connection with a 2005 sexual assault, following work from Attorney General Andy Beshear’s…

The backlog of untested rape kits in Kentucky has grown larger than the initial 3,000 discovered in a state audit in 2015. While testing has been…

A police official in Kentucky says all of the state's backlogged rape evidence kits have been tested. WLKY-TV reports that Laura Dudkamp, director of the…

Kentucky has received a $3 million federal grant that will fund a new unit in the attorney general’s office to investigate sexual assault cold cases.The…