SAN ANTONIO — A new audit by the City of San Antonio reveals a problem with how police are handling some rape kits, which are aimed at helping victim’s of sexual assault.
State law requires evidence in those kits be processed in a lab within 30 days, but turns out that not all kits met that deadline.
Nearly 10%of kits were not processed within 30 days, according to the city audit. This data was collected over a two-year period, and made public Tuesday during City Council’s audit committee.
Seventeen pages detail the findings of SAPD’s property and evidence room. The biggest take away was the department’s delay on some of it sexual assault kits.
