Data Brief: Rape Kit Backlog – What We Do and Don’t Know
The first step to solving the rape kit backlog crisis is to understand the actual extent of the problem. Unfortunately, decades of badly-kept records, unclear legislation, and a lack of transparency has made discerning the exact amount of “backlogged” kits in the state of Illinois difficult. In 2015, the Accountability Project, an initiative by the […]
FOIA: Illinois State Police – Record Types
This request to Illinois State Police (ISP) is one in a series of FOIA requests aimed at getting a better understanding of the data and records the CPD maintains and in what format they maintain it. There is section within the FOIA law that requires public bodies to maintain a list of the types […]