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Reform Is Happening
With its $35 million investment, the New York District Attorney’s Office will help communities achieve the results that rape kit testing has shown to bring time and time again: safety, justice and healing.
Money to Address Rape Kit Backlog in Congressional Spending Bill
Advocates praised the inclusion of $41 million to handle thousands of untested rape kits.
National Rape Kit Backlog Gets a $35 Million Boost
The massive national backlog of rape kits is being targeted by Manhattan’s district attorney, Cyrus Vance Jr. According to Vance, there is a backlog of “hundreds of thousands of rape kits” across the country in police warehouses.
Rape Kit Contribution Should Spur Congressional Action
Under the program announced in New York, $35 million in civil forfeiture assets will be made available to localities and states across the country to test some 70,000 rape kits, which are a collection of physical evidence painstakingly taken from victims of sexual assault.
