Emerging Issues: At Home Forensic Kits

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Colleges and universities have recently begun to be targeted by companies producing at-home, do-it-yourself forensic kits for people who are victims of sexual assault. While on one level, it is understandable to want to provide options like these to survivors, kits like these could ultimately do more harm than good.

Join Kim Day, RN, SANE-A, SANE-P, the Forensic Nursing Director at the International Association of Forensic Nurses (IAFN) and Jim Markey, retired Sergeant Phoenix Police Department, as they provide information on why these kits could be problematic, how to respond to questions from our community members that might not understand the problems with using these kits and more.

If you have questions prior to or during the call, e-mail jbronson@iaclea.org and we will do our best to get all of your questions answered.

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Kim Day, RN, SANE-A, SANE-P, is the Forensic Nursing Director at the International Association of Forensic Nurses (IAFN).  As Forensic Nursing Director, she supervises forensic nursing staff, provides technical assistance and training around the U.S. DOJ’s National Protocol for sexual assault medical forensic examinations of adult/adolescent and education for forensic nurses and other service providers working with victims of sexual assault and other forms of abuse. She is a Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner with dual certification as a SANE-A and SANE-P by the IAFN.

Mrs. Day has worked on many national-level projects such as: the PREA medical protocol advisory committee, the NSVRC’s SANE Sustainability project, the NCCHC’s PREA standards training for correctional healthcare, and the SWCLAP’s SAFESTAR project. She also has participated in the OVW’s DNA Backlog Roundtable and the White House Roundtable on Sexual Violence and OVC’s Vision 21 project. Kim was a member of the National Coordination Committee on the American Indian/Alaska Native SANE-SART initiative and the AG’s Federal/Tribal Prosecution Task Force the NIJ SAFER Steering Committee, OVW’s new Pediatric Sexual Abuse Exam Protocol project and the SART toolkit advisory committee.

Mrs. Day has spoken at many national, state and local conferences and webinars on the National SAFE Protocol, the National SAFE Protocol: pediatric and the medical forensic exam. She has authored chapters and contributed to: The Atlas of Sexual Violence, Sexual Assault Victimization Across the Lifespan and co-authored The Clinical Management of Children and Adolescents Who Have Experienced Sexual Violence: Technical Considerations for PEPFAR Programs. 

James (Jim) Markey is a 30-year veteran of the Phoenix (AZ) Police Department Jim retired as a detective sergeant overseeing the adult sex crime unit which investigated more than 7,000 sexual assault investigations including over 100 serial rape suspects.  During this tenure, he successfully directed several high-profile serial rape taskforces which required the management of multiple resources from various agency units over an extended time frame. In 2001, Jim developed the Phoenix Police Department Sexual Assault Cold Case Team reviewing over 4,000 old rape cases.   

Mr. Markey is currently employed as a Senior Law Enforcement Specialist for The Research Triangle Institute in Raleigh North Carolina providing technical assistance for the Department of Justice BJA SAKI (Sexual Assault Kit Initiative) a nationwide effort to address untested rape kits.   His role includes providing law enforcement technical assistance and training to 63 grantee sites across the nation. As a part of this project, he created the Sexual Assault Unit Assessment Program designed to comprehensively assess a police agency’s response to sexual assault.  In 2017 he was appointed by the United States Secretary of Defense to the 5-year Department of Defense Advisory Committee on the Investigation, Prosecution and Defense of Sexual Assault in the Military (DACIPAD).  Jim is a member of both the National Institute of Justice SAFER Act and Cold Case Working Groups and the Arizona Supreme Court Committee on Victims in the Courts.   He has a Bachelor of Science degree in criminal justice from Arizona State University and a Masters of Educational Leadership from Northern Arizona University.  Jim calls Fountain Hills Arizona his home.