Bipartisan Group of Senators Introduce Legislation to Fight Nationwide Rape Kit Backlog

Bill Would Alleviate National Backlog of As Many As 400,000 Untested Kits 

WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–May 24, 2012.  Today U.S. Senators John Cornyn (R-TX) and Michael Bennet (D-CO) joined by Sens. Susan Collins (R-ME), Mark Kirk (R-IL), Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and Al Franken (D-MN), introduced the Sexual Assault Forensic Evidence Registry (SAFER) Act to audit and reduce the backlog of untested rape kits sitting in the possession of law enforcement agencies across the country, which experts have pegged…