A year after a USA TODAY investigation revealed that police around the country weren’t following up on DNA evidence from unsolved rape cases, the Justice Department has published a report urging them ...

Nationally, about one in three survivors of sexual assault ever report their experiences to law enforcement, according to the Rape, Abuse, & Incest National Network. Texas is betting that gap is ...

PUBLIC SAFETY FACILITY — There are no longer unprocessed rape kits in the possession of the Santa Monica Police Department after detectives sent 470 to the crime lab over the last 13 months for ...

ALBANY — Gov. Kathy Hochul signed legislation Friday to include hospitals in the sexual offense evidence kit tracking process and prescribe a timeframe within which police departments and sheriffs’ ...

SAN DIEGO — The San Diego Police Department has transitioned to a state-run online database that allows sexual assault survivors to electronically track the status of their evidence kits. The ...

By Lauren Macovitz / Jambar Contributor From firearms and drugs to DNA and fingerprints, evidence collected by the Youngstown ...

Rape survivors in the Western Cape will find it difficult to prove their cases in court after several police stations across the province ran out of rape kits, essential in collecting evidence, a ...