SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Santa Clara County officials announced the end to a backlog of rape test kits in the county along with an expedited forensic testing process in sexual assault cases leading to ...

It wasn’t that many years ago that Indiana had data collected from victims in thousands of rape kits just sitting, waiting for those kits to be tested with the hope that the results could help send a ...

Senate recently voted to renew the act, but the Democratic leadership in the House has yet to schedule a vote. Scott Berkowitz with the anti-sexual violence organization RAINN says law enforcement ...

National policing leaders are warning that self-swab kits may undermine evidence and victim support.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Despite a federal program designed to clear backlogs of DNA evidence from rape cases, state and local officials around the country ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - City officials say they have tested more than 4,000 sexual assault kits and generated 14 indictments from evidence found in them, as they try to reduce a backlog of more than ...

Mariska Hargitay ‘s Joyful Heart Foundation has achieved a milestone more than a decade in the making.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — Victims of crimes rely on investigators to work effectively and efficiently. But year after year, we see rape kits taking a shockingly long time to be processed. The majority ...

Colorado’s backlog of untested rape kits shot to the forefront of state attention in January, when a sexual assault survivor detailed her “real-life nightmare” to lawmakers. Miranda Gordon had been ...

Authorities question the evidential value of the kits and call them "problematic".

* Any views expressed in this opinion piece are those of the author and not of Thomson Reuters Foundation. If testing rape kits represents a chance for justice for survivors and accountability for ...

Despite a federal program designed to clear backlogs of DNA evidence from rape cases, state and local officials around the country chose – again – not to test about 20% of kits and secured few ...