Government,
Criminal
May 18, 2018
Deadline approaches for bills addressing state’s rape kit backlog
A one-week deadline is looming for two bills pending in the Legislature aimed at clearing the backlog of what some have estimated as more than 10 thousand untested rape kits sitting in crime labs across California.
A one-week deadline is looming for two bills pending in the Legislature aimed at clearing the backlog of what some have estimated as more than 10,000 untested rape kits sitting in crime labs across California.
Designed to work in tandem, AB 3118 requires a statewide inventory of untested kits and SB 1449 mandates the testing of all newly collected kits, giving law enforcement agencies 20 days to submit kits to crime labs, and the la...
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