Due to those improvements, the SDPD Crime Lab now tests sex-assault forensic evidence significantly faster than before — averaging a 45-day turnaround, well ahead of the 145-day requirement set ...

The measure, sponsored by state Sens. Renee Burgess and Paul Moriarty, would require the state’s attorney general to establish a sexual assault forensic evidence kit, or rape kit, tracking system.

The Virginia Department of Forensic Science has purchased 1,000 such kits — designed to collect evidence from a victim’s neck and fingernails — to be sent to forensic nursing teams at hospita… ...