How Software Benefits the Criminal Justice Process
Why Every PD Needs and Evidence Management System – PoliceOne.com
Legal Software – The right automation software can help you avoid spoliation sanctions, improve your audit trails, and boost ROI — JD SUPRA Article April 16, 2018. If the court determines that lost evidence would have hurt your claim, it could order summary judgment for your opponent. In short, a single instance of spoliation sanctions could offset the entire cost for automated, cloud-based legal hold software
Evidence Collection – Property and Evidence Warehouses – Ensuring victims rights back-room, Parker, Colorado evidence managers share tips on the End the Backlog website.
Articles on Lost Evidence in the News:
“Lost” evidence could keep convicted DUI killer out of prison, again – WHAS11, May 17, 2018
News on Sexual Assault Kit Tracking (more at bottom of SAK page)
Evidence Technology Magazine shares BEST PRACTICES identified by the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) and the Sexual Assault Forensic Evidence Reporting Working Group (SAFER).
December 2018
- Ohio Lawmakers pass bill to create rape kit tracking system, Cleveland Rotunda Rumblings
- Ohio to offer rape kit tracking online for victims, WCPO Cincinati
March 2018
- Suspect accused of rape and murder while DNA evidence that could have incarcerated him sits on shelf. SF Chronicle
Early 2018
- Minnesota drafts new rape kit protocols with timetables for testing. Backlog of untested exams brings call for new law.
- Decades’ worth of rape kits are finally being tested, but no one can agree on what to do next – Washington Post Feb 2018
- In Wisconsin, testing sexual assault kits has yielded DNA profiles that match 20 known offenders in the FBI’s CODIS database, including 11 who weren’t listed as a suspect in the original case, U.S. News & World Report, Feb. 2018
- Detroit Kit Testing May Identify Hundreds Of Serial Rapists
- San Diego Tribune Union-Tribune Column | How #MeToo may bolster the case for testing all rape kits
- Trump Signs SAFER Act January 10, 2018
- D.C. Crime Lab eliminates rape kit backlog