Kansas law enforcement officers and sexual assault victim advocates shared optimism Thursday a new statewide strategy would prevent a repeat of problems created when thousands of assault kits were shelved before subjected to submitted analysis by laboratories. The Kansas Bureau of Investigation also announced the launch of a public awareness campaign to confront social biases related to sexual assault. KBI relied upon a $2 million grant to identify factors contributing to propensity of local law enforcement agencies in Kansas to withhold at least 2,220 assault kits from testing by laboratories...
