Sexual Assault Kit Initiative (SAKI)
Nearly $43 Million Awarded to Support the National Sexual Assault Kit Initiative
BJA has awarded almost $43 million via 32 grants to support the National Sexual Assault Kit Initiative (SAKI), an effort to strengthen jurisdictions’ capacity to act on evidence resulting from sexual assault kits. Learn more about SAKI and the FY 2018 awards.
BJA's Sexual Assault Kit Initiative: A United Effort to Get Justice for Victims
During this video, Dr. Angela Williamson, the BJA Senior Forensic Policy Advisor, shares information about different aspects of BJA's Sexual Assault Kit Initiative (SAKI).
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BJA's Sexual Assault Kit Initiative: Making Progress in Kit Testing
During this video, Dr. Angela Williamson, the BJA Senior Forensic Policy Advisor, shares information about different aspects of BJA's Sexual Assault Kit Initiative (SAKI).
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BJA's Sexual Assault Kit Initiative: Addressing the Backlog of Unsubmitted Kits
During this video, Dr. Angela Williamson, the BJA Senior Forensic Policy Advisor, shares information about different aspects of BJA's Sexual Assault Kit Initiative (SAKI) and how it is being used to reduce the backlog of unsubmitted kits.
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BJA's Sexual Assault Kit Initiative: Identifying Offenders' Behavior Patterns
During this video, Dr. Angela Williamson, the BJA Senior Forensic Policy Advisor, shares information about different aspects of BJA's Sexual Assault Kit Initiative (SAKI).
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Sexual Assault Kit Initiative (SAKI) Performance Measures Training
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'Looking backwards can tell us a whole lot about moving forward'
When Cuyahoga County, Ohio, embarked on the testing of nearly 7,000 backlogged sexual assault kits (SAKs) in early 2013, metaphors from Greek and Roman mythology abounded in the Cleveland media coverage – 'Herculean task' and 'Pandora's box' chief among them.
Five years on, now that the backlog has been largely cleared, the sense of dread associated with those words has been replaced by one of...