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| NIJ Announces New Solicitation on Untested Sexual Assault Evidence |
| By The National Institute Of Justice |
| Published: 10/29/2010 |
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Today, the National Institute of Justice issued a major solicitation to identify solutions to the nationwide problem of untested evidence in sexual assault cases. The goal is to understand why so many sexual assault kits (SAKs) are not forwarded from police evidence rooms to crime labs for DNA testing and to develop innovative approaches to solving the problem. NIJ will award up to $200,000 to each of 3 to 5 sites to create an "action-research" partnership to explore the problem and develop solutions. Each site — a state or local government with a minimum of 500 untested SAKs that have not been sent to a crime lab — will form a team to include a criminal-justice researcher and representatives from the police department, crime lab, prosecutor's office, and a community-based victim services organization. The teams will audit their cases to determine why the SAKs were not sent to the lab, then develop a plan to tackle the problem. In phase 2 of the project, NIJ intends to award up to $4 million (total) to the sites to implement their plans. Applications are due January 17, 2011. For more information, please visit the SAK solicitation page. |
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