Calling Colorado’s long turnaround times to process sexual assault evidence kits “simply unacceptable,” Gov. Jared Polis ...

Colorado Gov. Jared Polis signs bill to address sexual assault kit backlog, creating a grant program for independent sexual ...

Colorado is taking a major step forward in how it handles sexual assault investigations. Governor Jared Polis has signed ...

The Colorado Bureau of Investigation will have another year to spend $3 million earmarked for the processing of sexual assault forensic exams ... work through the rape kit back log.

I work as a medical forensic examiner ... The doctor or nurse will collect the samples using a sexual assault investigation kit, or a "rape kit." Collecting these samples might involve taking ...

The request, approved unanimously by the Legislative Audit Committee, is the first step toward a deeper investigation of the agency’s forensic services ... both the rape kit backlog and the ...

A forensic scientist with the Colorado Bureau of Investigation manipulated hundreds ... Processing a simple sexual assault kit can cost $1,000. Performing firearms analysis can cost as much ...

Saint Louis University's Forensic Science B.S., Crime Scene Investigation concentration students are a natural fit for this accelerated B.S. to the Criminology and Criminal Justice, M.A. accelerated ...

Forensic techniques and analyses ... best preserve the evidence for use in court. “The kit was created when trace evidence was core in investigation and prosecution, before DNA was used ...

bodily fluids and other evidence from sexual assault victims to pursue an investigation. Testing of rape kits, also known as Sexual Assault Forensic Examination or SAFE kits, enables law ...