New IL Rape Kit Law Signed Today
Lisa Madigan via HuffPoChi:
As a result, at the beginning of this year’s legislative session, we introduced a bill that would make Illinois the first state in the nation to mandate the testing of evidence collected in cases of sexual assault. This measure gained unanimous support in the General Assembly.
Under this new law, investigating law enforcement agencies are required to submit all evidence of sexual assault to the crime lab within 10 days of receiving it from a hospital. It also requires law enforcement agencies to provide the Illinois State Police an inventory of all untested kits in their possession to establish a timeline to complete their analyses.
Rape kits sitting on the shelves for years. The world is a far cry from Law & Order: SVU.

