2015 FOIA Request
FOIA Documents
Jurisdiction Type
City
Response
Untested Kits Discovered
86
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?
Through our efforts, we have learned that the Corvallis Police Department received 127 rape kits into evidence from 2005 to 2015, and retained 86 untested kits in police storage. Following our records request, 20 of these 86 have been submitted to the lab for testing, and 38 are anonymous kits (in which a survivor has chosen not to report the assault to the police). As of February 2016, the Corvallis Police Department reported 28 untested, non-anonymous kits.
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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.