Across the country, state and local crime labs are drowning in evidence. From rape kits to drug samples to vials of blood, ...

Forensic evidence can be an important tool in solving and prosecuting sexual assault cases, but some victims don't feel comfortable coming forward to police or medical examiners right away. Enter ...

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 ...

Newly released police records detail the initial police response, witness accounts and critical forensic evidence in the ...

BALTIMORE (WBFF) — Should survivors of sexual assault be able to collect their own DNA evidence after the crime? It’s a controversial issue a Maryland committee has been tasked with looking ...

At least 40 states and the District of Columbia have implemented a sexual assault forensic evidence, or SAFE, kit tracking system. These web-based systems allow individuals — including victims, ...

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… ...

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.

All submitted kits must be tested. Her counterpart in the lower chamber, Assemblywoman Verlina Reynolds-Jackson, D-Mercer, said that “establishing a tracking system for sexual assault forensic ...