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Sexual assault evidence in California: a slow moving story
California has only recently begun to take a legislative approach to dealing with its backlog of rape kits
California has only recently begun to take a legislative approach to dealing with its backlog of rape kits
Thousands of California women who said they were raped gave details of their assaults to investigators and provided critical data in “rape kits” — DNA, wounds, semen, hair, fibers — to identify their attackers. But many of the rape kits were not examined in a timely way, caught in a backlog that has angered some lawmakers and women’s groups.