2015 FOIA Request
FOIA Documents
Jurisdiction Type
City
Response
Untested Kits Discovered
173
Why did we send the FOIA?
In 2015, Joyful Heart issued public records requests to 22 medium sized jurisdictions for which we did not have any or had very little information about their untested rape kits.
What did we discover?
As of December 2015, the Boise Police Department reported 173 untested kits collected between 2006 and 2015. Since our request, 109 of these kits have been submitted for processing, leaving a backlog of 64 untested kits.
Why Accountability?
Right now, we do not know the full extent of the national rape kit backlog because few states require law enforcement agencies to count, track, or test rape kits. The Accountability Project aims to bring greater transparency and accountability to rape kit testing practices across the country.