Investigators believe the Prichard Police Department failed to test dozens sexual assault kits. The Mobile County Sheriff's ...

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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 ...

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 ...

A bisexual woman has filed a petition with the U.S. Supreme Court after her civil lawsuit was dismissed against the San Francisco Police Department for failure to process hundreds of rape kits. Rape ...

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 ...

A suspect already in federal prison was linked to open rape cases from 2007 and 2009 and became the 500th defendant in Cuyahoga County indicted as a direct result of my office’s Sexual Assault Kit ...

* 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 ...

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 ...

This story has been corrected. KAISERSLAUTERN, Germany — Defense Department civilian workers and contractors stationed overseas can once again undergo rape kit exams at U.S. military medical ...

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 ...