For decades, Chicago police sergeant Louis Vitullo was credited with creating the sexual assault collection kit. But it was ...

Sexual assault is trauma that changes every aspect of a human defense system, physically, emotionally, and mentally. Legal ...

Hundreds of rape kits are untested in Indiana, with a backlog longer than six months. House Bill 1413 hopes to change that.

Lawmakers are on break this week after several marathon debates on bills last week in the run up to the Legislature’s mid-session break. Last week was what Montana legislators call ...

We have written at length about the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) actions to promulgate regulations specifying the agency’s authority ...

Nursing staff at the hospital conducted a sexual assault forensic exam, also known as a rape kit, to collect and preserve DNA evidence, sheriff’s officials said. The DNA sample was then entered ...

How it happened has been the subject of deep reporting by journalists, police investigators, forensic specialists ... alleged effort to conceal potential evidence. July 13, 2024 He is allowed ...