Cordray says he's put together a group of 21 people who will come up with guidelines for how sexual assault kits should be handled.
“There are sexual assault kits around the state that have never been submitted to BCI or any crime lab," Cordray says. "There are certainly lots of cases where a sexual assault kit is taken at the time and the investigation almost immediately proceeds in a different direction and it’s considered not to be sexual assault and so they do not submit those for testing. But there are departments that have just gotten backlogged, have not submitted their kits, and we want to clean that up around the state.”
BCI has three crime labs that are part of eleven crime lab network in the state. Cordray says he wants to establish protocols and "get everybody on board as to when a sexual assault kit should be submitted for testing and when it should not."