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With an influx of DNA testing needs, outsourcing DNA testing is a way to utilize private partners with minimal impact to current crime laboratory initiatives. This document provides a guide for establishing positive partnerships with vendor laboratories for the submission and testing of sexual assault kits, and for considerations that will benefit the testing process.
Funded by the Bureau of Justice Assistance, the Sexual Assault Kit Initiative aims to create a coordinated community response that ensures just resolution to sexual assault cases. Through this program, funding is provided to support multidisciplinary community response teams engaged in the comprehensive reform of jurisdictions approaches to sexual assault cases resulting from evidence found in previously unsubmitted sexual assault kits.