IDAHO, USA — Multiple states across the country are adopting Idaho’s sexual assault kit evidence tracking system, according to Idaho State Police’s annual report on the number of evidence kits processed in 2023.
Nebraska, New Mexico, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma and Puerto Rico all are now using versions of the evidence-tracking software. The statewide collection kit tracking system has been in place in Idaho since 2017.
Matthew Gamette, forensic services laboratory system director for Idaho State Police, said in a phone interview that although Idaho labs pioneered the software, the lab elects to offer the system free of charge to any publicly funded entity wishing to use it, in part to curtail any hesitancy to use the system due to cost.
“Here it is. Do the right thing by these victims and track these kits,” Gamette said.
Through the online database, no personal information for sexual assault survivors is included, only a case number at the time of evidence collection.
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