TBI rape kit processing time down as Memphians demand more action
While Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI) bulked up staffing to speed up existing rape kit backlog, some Memphis city council members said that’s not good enough
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While Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI) bulked up staffing to speed up existing rape kit backlog, some Memphis city council members said that’s not good enough
“What I would like to do is to go and speak to the legislature as a victim and let them know what this does to us, how it traumatizes us,” Dalhoff said.
A class action lawsuit against the Memphis Police Department for mishandling of thousands of rape kits moves forward.
"He simply says they could not send us TBI non-suspect DNA testing before 2002, then they’re just wrong.”
The lawsuit, which was filed in 2014, has a chance of moving forward as a class action suit against the City of Memphis.