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Another busy week in the legislature yielded more tense moments and the passage of new bills. If you missed it, we have you covered in this week’s Tennessee State Capitol roundup.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Memphis police say it will remain busy over the next few years, as it continues to sort through evidence from the rape kit backlog. We found this out on Tuesday, when the council received an update for the first time is more than a year. “Today we have two codis matches that […]

A Memphis man was arrested and charged with aggravated rape 16 years after the offense was first reported.

NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. Justice Department has launched a sweeping inquiry into the New York Police Department’s famed sex crimes investigators following years of complaints about the way they treat crime victims. The civil rights investigation, announced Thursday and spurred by a letter last year from appalled victims, will examine whether the NYPD’s […]

A bill that would allow sexual assault survivors to closely track their rape kits could soon be debated on the House and Senate floor.

Authorities in Pennsylvania on Tuesday filed an arrest warrant in a 2013 campus attack at Gettysburg College, nearly eight years after the woman went to police and a year after she received an online message that said, “So I raped you.”

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Despite promises, it’s been more than a year since Memphis City Council received an update on the rape kit backlog, like what evidence has been processed and who’s been caught. For the past several years, updates on evidence backlog were provided to the city council every month, but they suddenly stopped in […]

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The rape kit lawsuit against the city is now moving forward. On Wednesday, a judge heard arguments on whether the case should be certified as a class action suit. The hearing lasted about two hours on a zoom call that we weren’t allowed to record. Both sides presented their arguments on why […]

A suspected serial rapist pled guilty to raping a 12-year-old girl and seven other people during an 11 year span.

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MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A new law in Tennessee will help sexual assault victims keep track of their evidence, thanks in part to help from a city thousands of miles away. The law requires the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation to set up a tracking system for sexual assault evidence kits. Donna Nelson, the crime laboratory regional […]