SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Santa Clara County officials announced the end to a backlog of rape test kits in the county along with an expedited forensic testing process in sexual assault cases leading to ...

It wasn’t that many years ago that Indiana had data collected from victims in thousands of rape kits just sitting, waiting for those kits to be tested with the hope that the results could help send a ...

On May 1st, after 16 years, the Joyful Heart’s End the Backlog Campaign has achieved what once felt impossible: all 50 states ...

DETROIT (AP) – For nearly two decades, Carol Bart’s untested rape kit collected dust in a police evidence room. Her attacker, who kidnapped her from outside her Dallas apartment and repeatedly raped ...

Mariska Hargitay ‘s Joyful Heart Foundation has achieved a milestone more than a decade in the making.

City officials announced Monday that Houston’s massive, decade-spanning rape kit backlog has been eliminated. Mayor Annise Parker, joined at City Hall by Harris County District Attorney Devon Anderson ...

A fundraiser organized to protest Colorado’s 568-day backlog for processing sexual assault forensic exams resulted in a $6,000 award to the state this week to urge officials to act faster to address ...

Testing sexual assault evidence is at issue in the 2025 race for Wisconsin Supreme Court. Wisconsin's backlog of testing sexual assault evidence in the 2010s is at issue in the 2025 race for state ...

NEW YORK (WABC) -- They could be the key evidence in getting a rape conviction, but thousands and thousands of rape kits have been sitting on shelves untested until now. Millions of dollars will be ...

Since the start of 2017, the Saranac Lake and Lake Placid village police departments have sent nine sexual assault evidence kits — commonly known as rape kits — to the State Police forensics lab in ...

SARANAC LAKE — Saranac Lake Police Department Chief James Joyce said Thursday that the three sexual assault evidence kits from his department awaiting testing at the State Police forensic laboratory ...