Lawmakers want to end uncertainty for victims.
The House unanimously passed a bill to create a database of “rape kits,” which contain evidence obtained from victims after sexual assaults.
The database, as established in Rep.
Emily Slosberg‘s legislation (
HB 673), would be open to the victims, so they can track what is going on with their kits as law enforcement processes them.
The bill is named “Gail’s Law” after
Gail Gardner, an Orlando woman who was sexually assaulted in 1988 and whose rape kit was not tested for more than 30 years. A few months ago, she found out that her attacker was a serial rapist linked to 15 other sexual assaults and serving a life sentence.