Friday, September 27, 2024

What's the matter with Iowa? Is GOP Attorney General as an unwitting accomplice of serial rapists?


Headline:  Des Moines Register, o/26/2024
Over the last three years, fewer than one in five kits were tested at the state crime laboratory in Ankeny, the probe found, and law enforcement agencies maintain vastly different approaches on whether to send evidence for testing: While some send all sexual assault kits for testing, others don't bother when two people involved in an alleged assault disagree over whether a sex act was consensual. 
Agencies said they've been doing that based on guidance from the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation Criminalistics Laboratory ― guidance that flies in the face of national best practices and research showing more serial offenders get caught when more kits are tested. 
Roxanne Conlin, long one of Iowa’s most high-profile advocates for sexual assault survivors, called the state's reduced testing “massively frustrating.”

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