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Gov. Gavin Newsom signs bill requiring most colleges to provide free transportation for students to receive a sexual assault forensic exam.
From 50 weeks down to 18. The rape kit backlog in Tennessee still remains a problem, but in a year, the wait time has been cut down significantly.
“As long as rape kits sit untested, authorities are failing the victims and communities we’ve sworn to protect,” Sen. John Cornyn said.
Some of the kits had been gathering dust in hospital, law enforcement and university security storage rooms since the 1980s.
A year since the death of 34-year-old mom and teacher Eliza Fletcher sparked a statewide conversation on rape kits, processing times have improved, but not as much as victim advocates had hoped.