Government,
Criminal
May 29, 2018
After a decade of trying, two bills to end rape kit backlog move forward
After repeated attempts over the past decade, two bills aimed at addressing the timeliness of DNA analysis of rape kits as well as the mounting backlog of untested kits in California were passed Friday from by the state Senate Appropriations Committee.
After repeated attempts over the past decade, two bills aimed at addressing the timeliness of DNA analysis of rape kits and the mounting backlog of untested kits in California were passed Friday from by the state Senate Appropriations Committee.
Assemblyman David Chiu, D-San Francisco, who sponsored the bill requiring law enforcement agencies and crime laboratories that store sexual assault evidence to conduct an audit of all backlog...
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