DNA Testing

The Austin City Council voted Thursday to create an independent forensics department. The move has long been advocated for by survivors of sexual assault.

Poor supervision and untrained staff have long plagued the Austin Police Department’s DNA crime lab, forcing it to close briefly in 2016 and then to be…

It took two years and millions of dollars, but thousands of sexual assault evidence kits collected in Austin and stuck in backlog have finally been…

From Texas Standard:After 40 years, California authorities last week arrested a person they believe to be the “golden state killer,” responsible for at…

On this edition of In Black America, producer/host John L. Hanson Jr. speaks with Joyce F. King, broadcaster, columnist, and author of ‘Exonerated: A…

The Travis County Commissioners Court considered options for how to handle a review of criminal cases potentially compromised by the local DNA lab. Run by…

Update: The Austin City Council has approved a $3.6 million, six-year contract with Dallas County to send the evidence there for testing. Original…

From the Austin Monitor: The Public Safety Commission upped the ante Tuesday, calling for an additional $5.6 million to tackle a backlog of DNA cases that…

District Attorney Rosemary Lehmberg announced last week that hundreds of criminal cases in Travis County could be subject to appeal because of a change in…

The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals granted a stay Monday afternoon in the case of Death Row inmate Rodney Reed. Reed was accused of the 1996 murder of…