- (a) The Department of Public Safety and the Department of Law shall develop a uniform sexual assault examination kit.
(b) Under protocols developed under AS 18.68.020,
- (1) the Department of Public Safety shall distribute the kits throughout the state; and
- (2) peace officers and health care providers shall use the kits for the gathering of evidence in cases of suspected sexual assault.
- (c) The appropriate person under the protocols developed under AS 18.68.020 shall provide a sexual assault examination kit at no charge.
- (d) This section does not prohibit the introduction in court of evidence obtained without the use of a sexual assault examination kit.