Gov. Kathy Hochul signed legislation recently to include hospitals in the sexual offense evidence kit tracking process and ...

New York is changing how sexual assault evidence moves from hospitals to police and crime labs, aiming to close gaps that have long frustrated survivors. State officials signed new legislation that ...

The state's new evidence handling law creates a survivor-centered approach that preserves rape kits for two decades.

For much of the year, NPR's Jude Joffe-Block and Miles Parks have reported on the DOGE-aided expansion of a federal data system known as SAVE and how it's been turned into a de facto tool to verify ...

I’ve been on campus with students for more than a year – here’s what the national emergency of rape means for them’ - COMMENT ...

An analysis of 10 months of Boston City Council hearings reveals that city councilors have repeatedly and consistently raised concerns about overtime spending, staffing levels, crime lab operations ...

The San Diego County Sheriff's Office announced that its Regional Crime Laboratory has received a $585,000 state grant.

Federal officials confirmed the firearms found in New Hampshire matched the guns used in the Brown University and MIT ...

Your next favorite true crime podcast might have some new forensics jargon to make sense of. Researchers in Australia have developed a new way to identify humans – similar to how we do with DNA and ...

Cumberland County recently amended a contract its forensic lab has with the State Department of Corrections to do drugs tests on evidence collected during inmate searches.