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SART Toolkit Section 6.12

Section 6: Victim-Centered Approaches

National Best Practices for Sexual Assault Kits: A Multidisciplinary Approach Chad Sniffen Wed, 08/09/2017

In August of 2017, the Department of Justice’s National Institute of Justice (NIJ) released a report on National Best Practices for Sexual Assault Kits: A Multidisciplinary Approach. In 2013, the Sexual Assault Forensic Evidence Report Act (SAFER Act) was passed into law amending the DNA Analysis Backlog Elimination Act of 2000 to provide funds for grants to be administered to laboratories to address the critical need of eliminating the backlog of sexual assault kits, the law requires an establishment of protocols and practices.