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Delays in testing evidence from sexual assaults have been a lost opportunity for investigators and a source of frustration for victims for years, prompting...

Delays in testing evidence from sexual assaults have been a lost opportunity for investigators and a source of frustration for victims for years, prompting...

Delays in testing evidence from sexual assaults have been a lost opportunity for investigators and a source of frustration for victims for years, prompting...

And vice president art del cueto of the vice council. you voted for obama twice, why are you voting now for adam laxalt? >> yes, and i switch parties in 2015. im voting for adam laxalt because of his experience as attorney general purity he gave a voice to the voice voiceless and tackled rape kits that justt and tested by cortez mastro. he tackled the opioid crisis as an attorney general. i want someone like that for my kids. >> todd: christina, your family, how has the democratic party and chri...

With a sexual assault kit backlog in the state that is months long, Gov. Bill Lee and his leadership team announced they will add more forensic staff to the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation.

And the idea that this kind of information is going to happen is going to be a huge disincentive for them to want to come in regard. and the other thing people need to realize, may not know this, taking the evidence from an rape kit is not exactly unintrusive. it is extremely intrusive, extremely traumatic. so having this result, its used as a band-aid. they need to look at it from a different issue, but that ordinance has been passed that you cant do this in future cases. >> the politics of it,...

Missouri had 1,536 untested kits. The Kansas City area accounted for nearly one-third of them.

The turnaround time to test a sexual assault kit can be months to even a year. That leaves victims languishing while police try to solve the crimes against them.

* Whose Flight Is It, Anyway?: Lawsuit aims to enforce minimum seat sizes among airlines. Looking at you Spirit and Frontier. [Reuters] * Remember Independent state legislative theory? That's still a thing, and it looms darker than before. Like fair elections? Pay attention.  [Common Dreams] * The DOJ subpoenaed over 30 people related to Trump's mucking about. Somebody is gonna fold, and Twitter will be ablaze. [CNN] * Reporting sexual assault is hard enough as is without the risk of ...

Treating victims like future violators can’t be good for police-civilian relations.