Senator Kamala Harris has proposed investing $1 billion to end the rape kit backlog nationwide if she becomes president. Get the details here.
Even though society has started to have important conversations about sexual harassment and assault, prosecuting sex crimes in the U.S. remains incredibly difficult. One huge barrier in these cases is the rape kit backlog—the massive number of kits that sit untested in hospitals for years. And now, Senator Kamala Harris has announced a $1 billion proposal to end this backlog if she is elected president.
CNN reports that the California senator rolled out her plan today, July 11th, making her the first in the crowded field of Democratic presidential hopefuls to make such a proposal. Harris’s plan would involve investing $1 billion to help states close their backlogs.
According to The Washington Post, when Harris served as California attorney general before her election in 2016, she helped introduce new testing technology to address the rape kit backlog. Her office’s Rapid DNA Service team told the Post that it cleared California’s backlog in just one year. Harris’s plan could make a huge difference to victims of rape and sexual assault in America. We applaud Harris for addressing this issue, and we hope other candidates will consider doing the same.
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