The Colorado Bureau of Investigation will have another year to spend $3 million earmarked for the processing of sexual ...

A bill calling for a rape kit tracking system was passed by the Maine House and Senate last year but was ultimately not ...

What really happens when you report a rape This is one of the three ways co-founder of non-profit enough Katie White hopes the kits will be used. “This is what survivors want”, she tells me ...

Self-swab DNA testing could put rape survivors "at risk", forensic experts say, with a leading lawyer adding he is "horrified ...

That’s my own hopeless dreaming, searching for another, less dark world. Each package contains one at-home DNA testing kit. In the wake of a rape or sexual assault, you can swab yourself and send this ...

A key part of this process is the Sexual Assault Nurse Examination to collect physical evidence for a Sexual Assault Evidence kit (colloquially called a “rape kit”). This invasive, traumatic ...

Definitively convicting rapists is only possible thanks to one woman's efforts to create a forensic chain of evidence. A new book explores the rape kit and how we still fail survivors ...

Had anything ever been invented to discourage sexual assault, she wondered? And so began her years-long investigation into the origins of the rape kit. “A work of audacious genius”, it was a box that ...

Some lawmakers had demanded the Colorado Bureau of Investigation show a clear plan to resolve the 500-day wait for test ...

Wisconsin Supreme Court candidate Susan Crawford criticized her opponent Brad Schimel for his handling of a rape kit backlog when he was state attorney general. Schimel said Crawford lied about his ...