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Police commission reviews SVU report on sexual‑assault kits and survivor notification
Summary
The San Francisco Police Commission heard the Special Victims Unit's first semiannual report tied to Resolution 16-28, detailing kit handling, chain‑of‑custody steps, CODIS testing timelines and planned changes to survivor notification; commissioners pressed the department for a retroactive notification plan for cases within statute limits.
The San Francisco Police Commission on July 13 received a semiannual report from the Special Victims Unit (SVU) on its handling of sexual‑assault evidence kits and on procedures for notifying survivors of forensic results.
The presentation, delivered by Captain Una Bailey and Lieutenant Duderoff, summarized the unit's workflow from a survivor's choice to have a kit collected through transfer to the Property Control Division and testing in the crime lab. The SVU said kits are picked up daily and the unit aims to transfer kits to property or lab custody within one day, two days at most; a written unit order (Special Victims Unit Order 16‑3) now documents pick‑up and chain‑of‑custody steps.
Commissioners pressed SVU staff about survivor notification. Captain Bailey said the…
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