evidence collection kits. "Collect time-sensitive DNA after sexual assault," the company advertises. Typically, rape kits—as they are unfortunately called—are administered by medical ...

A sexual assault evidence collection kit. The Massachusetts House and Senate are asking for rape kit reform as a part of a new criminal justice bill. PHOTO COURTESY WIKIMEDIA COMMONS Massachusetts ...

The concept of at-home sexual assault evidence collection kits emerged in the late 2010s at the height of the Me Too movement, when companies began offering at-home SAKs marketed as a way to ...

The kit, conceived within the Chicago Police Department in the mid-1970s, was trademarked under the name “Vitullo Evidence Collection Kit,” after Sergeant Louis Vitullo.

The audit found that in 2021, the MSPCL failed to review 3,084 sexual assault evidence collection kits within the required 90 days, which is nearly half of the previously untested kits.

But the evidence was one of more than 7,000 kits from throughout Massachusetts that “was never fully tested by the state lab,” according to Bristol County District Attorney Thomas Quinn III.

FILE: A Sexual Assault Evidence Collection Kit, or Rape Kit, rests on a table in an examination room, Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2022, in Austin, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay) By Molly Farrar ...

The NYPD created a plan to try to stop rape kits from falling through the cracks after hospitals alerted them that an unknown number of the kits were never analyzed by labs, The Post has learned.

She was then taken to Sturdy Memorial Hospital, where an evidence collection kit was performed. That kit wasn’t tested for decades, according to the DA. In 2019, ...